Young Tarentine
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Young Tarentine
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Young Tarentine, by Alexandre Schoenewerk, 1871.
A champion of realism and little sensitive to the romanticism of Schoenewerk, Émile Zola wrote about the Young Tarentine in his review of the Salon of 1872 “There is a marble corpse that the audience surrounds with meditation. It's La Jeune Tarantine, by M. Schoenewerk. A delicate piece. The artist poised on a rock this lover of whom André Chénier speaks to us, who went to find love and found only death; the waves rolled her corpse onto the shore where her beloved awaited. With her hip high, her head thrown back, her face already soft and as if effaced by the water, the body dissolves in a very tender and poetic manner... "
The Orsay Museum was a Beaux-Arts railway station inaugurated in 1900. The main facade was comprised between two clock towers. There is a restaurant behind the western clock and the museum galleries open to the eastern one, the one in the picture.
Orsay is considered the chronological continuation of the Louvre painting and sculpture collections and houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and Van Gogh.
As for Paris... What can one say about the City of Light that has not already been said?
More views of Paris one copy-paste away in my Gallery at http://westonwestmoreland.com/collections/paris
More amazing statues, sculptures and carvings at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/statues+sculptures+carvings
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October 27th, 2020
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