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Château de Nacqueville,

Urville-Nacqueville, Normandy, France

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Autumn glow by John Atkinson Grimshaw

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The River Rhine, Germany by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

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View of the Château de Versailles and the gardens from the Avenue de Paris in 1668 by Pierre Patel

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George Hendrik Breitner,

Little is known about Geesje and we can assume that this mysterious girl would have been forgotten by history if she wasn’t posing for Breitner. She was born as Gezina Kwak in Zaandam on 17 April 1877 and moved to Amsterdam in 1893. She worked either as a seamstress or as a salesgirl in a hat shop. In a right place at a right time, Geesje moved to the street where Breitner’s studio was and soon started modelling for him regularly. Their relationship was strictly professional and Breitner noted down in his notebook the precise hours and duration of her sittings.

Geesje would walk around the studio, as in a zen garden, or lounged on the divan, sit in front of the mirror, and Breitner sketched her and even photographed her. It’s a good thing he did because in 1895 Geesje and her sister moved to South Africa where Geesje died in 1899 from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-two. Beauty tinged with sadness is how I see all the gorgeous paintings. The blossoms of spring, cherry, plum or apple blossoms, are delicate and ephemeral, better gaze at them before they vanish, better paint them before they wither. And I feel the same could be said about Geesje, looking at her life in retrospective

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Aeon Flux & Trevor Goodchild.

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'Norwood Riders' by Rebecca Guay

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NASA’s Europa Clipper should be launching in 50 minutes!

watch the livestream on youtube or nasa.gov!

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Aleksasha Chazova