#Théodore Deck

[philoursmars]

Marseille. A la Vieille-Charité, une expo "Panoramas" faisant le tour de la variété des musées de la ville (d'où cet aspect disparate, mais très plaisant)

Dominique Louis Ferréol Papety - "Italiens"

collection Jeanne Lanvin, 1988

idem

Théodore Deck : Vase bouteille 1861 ; "Shirin au bain" avec le prince Kushraw, Iran, époque Qadjar, mi XIXe s.

Mathilde Robert - "La Vénitienne"

vase, "Le Christ calmant une tempête" - Marseille, Saint-Jean-du-Désert, 1715

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TwoForTuesday + #TilesOnTuesday:

Joseph-Théodore Deck (French, 1823-1891)

Tile Plaques, c.1880

Earthenware with underglaze & overglaze enamel decoration

Each tile: 10 x 10 in (25.4 x 25.4 cm)

Each panel: 40 x 20 in (101.6 x 50.8 cm)

On view at Philadelphia Museum of Art

The vibrant turquoise blue in these works was one of the signature glazes developed by ceramist Joseph-Théodore Deck, who was inspired by Turkish ceramics. The turquoise came to be so closely identified with the artist that it came to be known in the late 1800s as ‘Deck blue.’”

[life-of-heaven-and-waters]

Joseph-Théodore Deck. Vase in the Form of a Mosque Lamp. Minneapolis Institute of Art.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

Edmond Lachenal (French potter, 1855-1948)

Edmond Lachenal /He was a French potter. He was a key figure in the French art pottery movement and his works are held in many international public collections, as Art Nouveau ceramics in the Louvre, Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

👆 Vase, Châtillon-sous-Bagneux, c. 1894

Faience

Purchased from the artist, 1894. Inv. 7991 Photo : © Les Arts Décoratifs

This vase was presented at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1894.

👇 Vase ca. 1894, Lead-glazed earthenware

Height: 12 5/8 in. (32.1 cm)

Ceramics-Pottery

The brilliant turquoise is a version of the bleu Deck developed by Lachenal's teacher, Théodore Deck, who was inspired by sixteenth-century Iznik pottery.

[detournementsmineurs]

"Tombe de Théodore Deck" céramiste et administrateur de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres (1887-91), réalisée dans le style Art Nouveau par la sculpteur Auguste Bartholdi avec l’épitaphe "Eripuit Coelo Lumen (Il Arracha le Feu - littéralement la Lumière - au Ciel)" (1891), clin d’œil au vers qu'Anne Robert Turgot (1727-1781) écrivit pour Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) en référence à son invention du paratonnerre et à son rôle dans l’indépendance des États-Unis "Eripuit Coelo Flumen, Spectrumque Tyrannis (Il Arracha au Ciel sa Foudre, aux Tyrans leur Spectre)", cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, mars 2024.

[legendarycashshoekid]

yama-bato:

Vase : décor d’oiseau et de branches fleuries

Auteur : Deck Théodore (1823-1891)

[brookston]

Holidays 9.26

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Mozambique)

Cheval Day (Horse Day; French Republic)

Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day (Australia)

Cordyceps Pandemic Day (The Last of Us)

Dominion Day (New Zealand)

European Day of Languages (EU)

Feast of Lamps (India)

Federal Trade Commission Day

Flag Day (Ecuador)

Fortnite Day

Ghatasthapana (Nepal)

Gilligan's Island Day

Grand Magal de Touba (Senegal)

Human Resource Professional Day

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (UN)

International Tool Day

Johnny Appleseed Day

The Last of Us Day (a.k.a. Outbreak Day)

Lumberjack Day (a.k.a. Talk Like a Lumberjack Day, Eat Like a Lumberjack Day, Attack Wooden Objects Like a Lumberjack Day) [also Last Friday of Last Full Weekend]

Matchbook Day

Mesothelioma Awareness Day

Mid-Autumn Day (Scottish Highlands)

National Alpaca Day

National Amanda Day

National Black Men Day

National Compliance Officer Day

National Day of Praise and Worship

National Family Day

National Good Neighbor Day

National Got Checked Day

National Hari Day

National Law Enforcement Suicide Awareness Day

National Ranboo Day

National Situational Awareness Day

NICU Remembrance Day

Old Holy Rood Day

Pearl Thusi Day

Revolution Day (Yemen)

Search For Your Baseball Cards Again Day

Shamu the Whale Day

Stanislav Petrov Day

Today's Awesome Because You Totally Don't Have To Bathe Day

United States Postal Service Day

Winnie Mandela Day (South Africa)

World Cassowary Day

World Contraception Day

World Day for the Prevention of Adolescent Unwanted Pregnancies

World Day of Multiple Births

World Environmental Health Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Balaclava Day

National Better Breakfast Day

National Chimichanga Day

National Dumpling Day

National Key Lime Pie Day

Pancake Lovers Day

4th & Last Tuesday in September

National Voter Registration Day [4th Tuesday]

National Woman Road Warrior Day [4th Tuesday]

World Interaction Day [Last Tuesday]

Independence Days

Petorio (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Bureflex (Discordian)

Canadian Martyrs (Catholic Church in Canada)

Colman Elo (Christian; Saint)

Cosmas and Damian (Christian; Saint)

Cyprian and Justina (Christian; Martyrs)

Eusebius (Christian; Saint)

Fairy Napmother (Muppetism)

Feast of Aphrodite (Pagan)

Feast of Zame ye Mebege (God of Narcotics; Gabon)

Festival of Venus Genetrix (Ancient Rome)

Franz Liszt Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

John of Meda (Christian; Saint)

Mme. de Sévigné (Positivist; Saint)

Nilus the Younger (Christian; Saint)

Scrub the Poop Deck Day (Pastafarian)

Théodore Géricault (Artology)

Wilson Carlile (Anglican)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 269 [57 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Abbey Road, by The Beatles (Album; 1969)

The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series; 1962)

Book of Love, by The Monotones (Song; 1957)

The Boxtrolls (Animated Film; 2014)

The Brady Bunch (TV Series; 1969)

A Broken Leghorn (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)

Crocodile Dundee (Film; 1986)

Cupid (TV Series; 1998)

Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann (Poem; 1927)

Downtown Abbey (TV Series; 2010)

El Terrible Toreador (Disney Cartoon; 1929)

Gilligan’s Island (TV Series; 1964)

Good Charlotte, by Good Charlotte (Album; 2000)

Here Comes the Sun, by The Beatles (Song; 1969)

Jenny from the Block, by Jennifer Lopez (Song; 2002)

Knight Rider (TV Series; 1982)

Lumber Jack-Rabbit (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)

Miracle at St, Anna (Film; 2008)

Monkey Melodies (Disney Cartoon; 1930)

Mythology Edith Hamilton (Mythology; 1942)

The Name of the Rose (Film; 1986)

Oliver! (Film; 1968)

Poker Face, by Lady Gaga (Song; 2008)

Prisoners of the Sun, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1949) [Tintin #14]

Purple Rain (Film; 1984)

Red Planet, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1949)

Riptide Rocky or Drips Adrift (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 112; 1961)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film; 1975)

The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie (Novel; 1988)

Shout at the Devil, by Mötley Crüe (Album; 1983)

Stardust Memories (Film; 1980)

Straight Outta Lynwood, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2006)

Three Blind Mouseketeers (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Under the Tuscan Sun (Film; 2003)

The Unicorn (TV Series; 2019)

U2-3, by U2 (EP; 979)

Walls and Bridges, by John Lennon (Album; 1974)

West Side Story (Broadway Musical; 1957)

The Wizard Biz or Bullwinkle Lays an Egg (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 111; 1961)

You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling, recorded by The Righteous Brothers (Song; 1964)

Today’s Name Days

Cosima, Damian, Eugenia, Kosmas (Austria)

Damir, Damjan, Gideon, Kuzma (Croatia)

Andrea (Czech Republic)

Adolph (Denmark)

Valve, Valvi, Velve, Vilve, Vilvi (Estonia)

Kuisma (Finland)

Côme, Damien (France)

Cosima, Damian, Kosmas (Germany)

Jusztina, Pál (Hungary)

Cosma, Damiano, Nilo (Italy)

Egmonts, Gundars, Knuts, Kurts (Latvia)

Gražina, Justė, Justina, Kipras, Vydenis (Lithuania)

Einar, Endre (Norway)

Cyprian, Euzebiusz, Justyna, Łękomir (Poland)

Edita (Slovakia)

Cosme, Damián (Spain)

Einar, Enar (Sweden)

Grazina, Juste, Justina, Kipras, Vydenis (Ukraine)

Newton, Renata, Renault, Rene, Renee, Renny (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 269 of 2024; 96 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 39 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 12 (Ding-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 11 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 29 Aki; Eightthday [29 of 30]

Julian: 13 September 2023

Moon: 89%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 17 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Mme. de Sévigné]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 4 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 4 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 9.26

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Mozambique)

Cheval Day (Horse Day; French Republic)

Childhood Brain Cancer Awareness Day (Australia)

Cordyceps Pandemic Day (The Last of Us)

Dominion Day (New Zealand)

European Day of Languages (EU)

Feast of Lamps (India)

Federal Trade Commission Day

Flag Day (Ecuador)

Fortnite Day

Ghatasthapana (Nepal)

Gilligan's Island Day

Grand Magal de Touba (Senegal)

Human Resource Professional Day

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (UN)

International Tool Day

Johnny Appleseed Day

The Last of Us Day (a.k.a. Outbreak Day)

Lumberjack Day (a.k.a. Talk Like a Lumberjack Day, Eat Like a Lumberjack Day, Attack Wooden Objects Like a Lumberjack Day) [also Last Friday of Last Full Weekend]

Matchbook Day

Mesothelioma Awareness Day

Mid-Autumn Day (Scottish Highlands)

National Alpaca Day

National Amanda Day

National Black Men Day

National Compliance Officer Day

National Day of Praise and Worship

National Family Day

National Good Neighbor Day

National Got Checked Day

National Hari Day

National Law Enforcement Suicide Awareness Day

National Ranboo Day

National Situational Awareness Day

NICU Remembrance Day

Old Holy Rood Day

Pearl Thusi Day

Revolution Day (Yemen)

Search For Your Baseball Cards Again Day

Shamu the Whale Day

Stanislav Petrov Day

Today's Awesome Because You Totally Don't Have To Bathe Day

United States Postal Service Day

Winnie Mandela Day (South Africa)

World Cassowary Day

World Contraception Day

World Day for the Prevention of Adolescent Unwanted Pregnancies

World Day of Multiple Births

World Environmental Health Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Balaclava Day

National Better Breakfast Day

National Chimichanga Day

National Dumpling Day

National Key Lime Pie Day

Pancake Lovers Day

4th & Last Tuesday in September

National Voter Registration Day [4th Tuesday]

National Woman Road Warrior Day [4th Tuesday]

World Interaction Day [Last Tuesday]

Independence Days

Petorio (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Bureflex (Discordian)

Canadian Martyrs (Catholic Church in Canada)

Colman Elo (Christian; Saint)

Cosmas and Damian (Christian; Saint)

Cyprian and Justina (Christian; Martyrs)

Eusebius (Christian; Saint)

Fairy Napmother (Muppetism)

Feast of Aphrodite (Pagan)

Feast of Zame ye Mebege (God of Narcotics; Gabon)

Festival of Venus Genetrix (Ancient Rome)

Franz Liszt Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

John of Meda (Christian; Saint)

Mme. de Sévigné (Positivist; Saint)

Nilus the Younger (Christian; Saint)

Scrub the Poop Deck Day (Pastafarian)

Théodore Géricault (Artology)

Wilson Carlile (Anglican)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 269 [57 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Abbey Road, by The Beatles (Album; 1969)

The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Series; 1962)

Book of Love, by The Monotones (Song; 1957)

The Boxtrolls (Animated Film; 2014)

The Brady Bunch (TV Series; 1969)

A Broken Leghorn (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)

Crocodile Dundee (Film; 1986)

Cupid (TV Series; 1998)

Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann (Poem; 1927)

Downtown Abbey (TV Series; 2010)

El Terrible Toreador (Disney Cartoon; 1929)

Gilligan’s Island (TV Series; 1964)

Good Charlotte, by Good Charlotte (Album; 2000)

Here Comes the Sun, by The Beatles (Song; 1969)

Jenny from the Block, by Jennifer Lopez (Song; 2002)

Knight Rider (TV Series; 1982)

Lumber Jack-Rabbit (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)

Miracle at St, Anna (Film; 2008)

Monkey Melodies (Disney Cartoon; 1930)

Mythology Edith Hamilton (Mythology; 1942)

The Name of the Rose (Film; 1986)

Oliver! (Film; 1968)

Poker Face, by Lady Gaga (Song; 2008)

Prisoners of the Sun, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1949) [Tintin #14]

Purple Rain (Film; 1984)

Red Planet, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1949)

Riptide Rocky or Drips Adrift (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 112; 1961)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film; 1975)

The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie (Novel; 1988)

Shout at the Devil, by Mötley Crüe (Album; 1983)

Stardust Memories (Film; 1980)

Straight Outta Lynwood, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2006)

Three Blind Mouseketeers (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Under the Tuscan Sun (Film; 2003)

The Unicorn (TV Series; 2019)

U2-3, by U2 (EP; 979)

Walls and Bridges, by John Lennon (Album; 1974)

West Side Story (Broadway Musical; 1957)

The Wizard Biz or Bullwinkle Lays an Egg (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 111; 1961)

You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling, recorded by The Righteous Brothers (Song; 1964)

Today’s Name Days

Cosima, Damian, Eugenia, Kosmas (Austria)

Damir, Damjan, Gideon, Kuzma (Croatia)

Andrea (Czech Republic)

Adolph (Denmark)

Valve, Valvi, Velve, Vilve, Vilvi (Estonia)

Kuisma (Finland)

Côme, Damien (France)

Cosima, Damian, Kosmas (Germany)

Jusztina, Pál (Hungary)

Cosma, Damiano, Nilo (Italy)

Egmonts, Gundars, Knuts, Kurts (Latvia)

Gražina, Justė, Justina, Kipras, Vydenis (Lithuania)

Einar, Endre (Norway)

Cyprian, Euzebiusz, Justyna, Łękomir (Poland)

Edita (Slovakia)

Cosme, Damián (Spain)

Einar, Enar (Sweden)

Grazina, Juste, Justina, Kipras, Vydenis (Ukraine)

Newton, Renata, Renault, Rene, Renee, Renny (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 269 of 2024; 96 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 39 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 12 (Ding-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 11 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 29 Aki; Eightthday [29 of 30]

Julian: 13 September 2023

Moon: 89%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 17 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Mme. de Sévigné]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 4 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 4 of 30)

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Le Bleu Deck

Théodore Deck né le 2 janvier 1823 à Guebwiller et décédé le 15 mai 1891 à Paris, était un céramiste français connu pour son « Bleu Deck » ou « Bleu de Deck ».

En 1841, Deck suit un apprentissage chez un poêlier à Strasbourg, suite à cette formation il effectue un tour des ateliers dans plusieurs pays, dont l’Autriche qui le remarquera pour son travail de qualité. Suite à la révolution, Théodore ouvre un petit atelier de terres cuites dans sa ville natale, il y réalise des bustes, statuettes, vases, lampes et copies d’antiques célèbres. Il retourna à Paris où il sera employé comme contre-maître par la veuve Dumas, fille du faïencier Vogt pour qui il avait déjà travaillé auparavant. La fabrique remporte une première médaille à l’Exposition universelle de 1855. En 1858, il fonde la fabrique Deck avec son frère Xavier où ils n’y font que des revêtements de poêles dans un premier temps, avant de se diversifier et explorer la céramique pour revêtement des bâtiments et les pièces de forme.

Les techniques acquises au fil de son parcours lui permettront de créer une palette d’émaux inédits, ces émaux font écho à son inspiration pour la Renaissance italienne, la Grèce antique, le naturalisme japonais et l’Orient islamique. Il se spécialise dans le style oriental et plus précisément le style d’Iznik. Le « Bleu Deck » lui a été inspiré par un tesson Perse, il analysa sa composition et créa sa propre teinte, un mélange de potasse, de carbonate de soude et de chaux associés à des glaçures alcalines. Un puissant mélange à la frontière entre le bleu turc, le bleu persan, le bleu égyptien et le bleu chinois, créant un bleu turquoise profond, opaque, moins vitrifié qui a la particularité d’être plus où moins intense selon les couches appliquées.

En 1861, il révèle ses années d’expérience et de recherches à l’Exposition universelle des arts et industries, il y expose des pièces à décor d’incrustation dit « Henri II » et d’autres pièces recouvertes de son nouvel émail ou d’un décor dans le style des céramiques d’Iznik. Il y remporte une médaille d’argent.

En 1862, à l’Exposition universelle de 1862 à Londres, il présente son Vase de l’Alhambra qui mesure 1,36m de hauteur pour 2,25m de circonférence qui sera acheté par le South Kensington Museum quelques années plus tard.

Deck perfectionne encore ses émaux et parvient en 1864 à présenter des œuvres non craquelées.

En 1875, il est nommé à la tête de la commission de perfectionnement de la Manufacture de Sèvres.

En 1880, il explore la tradition chinoise et collabore avec Raphaël Collin, un professeur à l’académie des beaux arts reconnu pour son habilité à joindre l’art français à l’art japonais dans les domaines de la peinture et la céramique et en 1887, Théodore publie un « traité sur la faïence ».

Artiste, décorateur et chimiste artisan, Deck a enrichi le monde de la céramique européenne grâce aux techniques exotiques qui l’ont influencé. Il a créé une large gamme de techniques nouvelles comme la glaçure sur feuille d’or, le bleu turquoise et le bleu Deck.

Un musée lui rendant hommage a été créé en 1933, dans sa commune de naissance Guebwiller, il est nommé « le musée Théodore-Deck et des pays du Florival ».

[teconozcomascarita]

Jardinière, France. Théodore Deck, ca. 1890

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪"Bleu de Deck" bowl.

Maker: Joseph-Théodore Deck (French, Guebwiller, Alsace 1823–1891 Paris)

Date: ca. 1870–80

Culture: French, Paris

Medium: Glazed earthenware

[philoursmars]

Marseille, la Bastide Borély , musée des Arts Décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode.

Alternés avec les tapisseries de Laurence Aëgerter : "Longo Maï, le Bain de Minuit",...

Théodore Deck - Vase éléphant - 1880

entre autres, cabinet sho-dana de l'Ere Meiji (XIXe s.), et Bouddha Amida-Nyorai de l'Ere Edo (XVII-XVIIIe)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Baturday :

Edmond Lachenal (France, 1855-1930)

Vases in the Form of Lanterns, c.1885

Glazed earthenware, Hand painted earthenware

Now on display at Philadelphia Museum of Art “Firing the Imagination: Japanese Intluence on French Ceramics, 1860-1910”

“In 1870, at age 15, Edmond Lachenal apprenticed himself to the renowned ceramist Théodore Deck. At the Deck studio in Paris, Lachenal learned both production techniques and the non-Western styles and ornamental traditions which Deck was beginning to incorporate in his work. Lachenal brought these approaches with him when he established his own workshop in 1883. There he produced small and large Japanese-inspired plaques, vases, and sculptural objects.

Shaped like Japanese paper lantern[s], th[ese] vase[s] [are] decorated with two sculptural brown bats. Lachenal may have been influenced by the work of the Japanese potter Miyagawa Kōzan (1842–1916), whose prize-winning ceramics were displayed at the Paris Universal Expositions of 1878 and 1889. Kōzan was celebrated for his decorative technique taka-ukibori (sculptural relief), in which he decorated the surfaces of his wares with realistic three-dimensional high reliefs and sculptures, such as a crab climbing on the edge of a bowl.”

[ltwilliammowett]

The Méduse and her famous raft-  Part 2

The first part dealt with the circumstances of the accident of the Méduse and now the second part is about what happened on the raft and the boats.

At the time the raft was abandoned by the dinghies, there were 146 men and one woman on the raft. A large number of them belonged to the African battalion, whose ordinary soldiers came in parts from Italy, Arabia, Guadeloupe, San Domingo, India, Asia, America, Poland and Ireland. The only woman on the raft was a sutler who did not want to part with her husband, one of the soldiers. Only twenty crew members of the Méduse were on board the raft - the rest had been given a place in the dinghies. The rest of the people on board were craftsmen. According to Commodore de Chaumareys' instructions, Ensign Jean-Daniel Coudein was to command the raft. However, the ensign had injured his lower leg on departure and was unable to exercise any form of authority on board due to the injury. According to the accounts of the raft's survivors, it was ultimately the second medical officer, Henri Savigny, the engineer and geographer Alexandre Corréard and the secretary Jean Griffon du Bellay who provided some form of leadership over the next few days. Alexandre Corréard had voluntarily gone on the raft, although he had been allocated a place in one of the dinghies. However, his twelve workers were on the raft and Corréard felt obliged to stay with them. Even though they all could not believe what the boats had done.

Everyone on board the raft must have realised at that moment how hopeless their situation was. The 147 people were standing waist-deep in water and every major wave was crashing over them. Those on the edge ran the risk of being washed out to sea, and any of them could be seriously injured if they got caught between the loosely tied masts and yards that made up the raft's deck. There was no way to retreat from the scorching equatorial sun. Henri Savigny did have a mast erected with a small sail, but without oars, the raft was driven back and forth by the current and wind. They lacked a compass, map and anchor - important pieces of equipment that First Officer Reynaud had assured them they would find on the raft. In terms of liquid, they only had two barrels of wine and one barrel of water at their disposal. The only provisions were a sack of wet ship's biscuit, which Henri Savigny had distributed immediately.

Already in the first night, probably twelve men died. The meagre rations of liquid hardly helped in the scorching sun. Three men - a baker and two apprentices - committed suicide by throwing themselves into the sea. Others were trampled to death as those on deck tried to seek shelter from approaching breakers in the middle of the raft. Supplies quickly ran out and cannibalism broke out on the raft. On the 8th day, 65 passengers were shot and the weak and wounded thrown overboard.  

The situation on the boats, however, was different. The launch with the governor and his family and the commander's launch with Commodore de Chaumareys on board managed to stay close together for the next three days. Both boats carried sufficient provisions. The 36 people on board the launch alone had 18 bottles of wine and 60 bottles of water, in addition to 50 English pounds of ship's rusks. Favoured by the wind, they were about 35 nautical miles from St Louis on the evening of 8 July when they were spotted by the Echo, which had sailed back from St Louis to look for the Méduse. They arrived in St Louis on 9 July without any harm coming to any of the people.

The Raft of the Méduse by Théodore Géricault 1818 (x)

The overcrowded big dinghy sighted the African coast already in the afternoon of 5 July. However, it ran aground on a sandbank before it could reach the coast, and it was night before the boat had enough water under its keel again. 57 of those on board preferred the 200-mile march along the coast to another sea voyage the next morning, even though they did not have enough provisions and water, the route led through the desert and they had to reckon with being attacked by hostile tribes. Second Officer Espiaux dropped them off at the southern end of the Arguin Bank and sailed with the remaining people towards St. Louis. They met two of the other dinghies a little later, namely the small dinghy and the barge, and picked up the 15 people whose dinghy was in danger of sinking. The following night the boats were again driven apart, and it was not until the afternoon of 7 July that the barge and the big dinghy met again. Both boats were so close to the coast that the barg was finally washed ashore by the waves. Jean-Baptiste Espiaux then steered the dinghy onto the beach as well.

The pinasse under the command of Lieutenant Lapeyrère was initially able to stay close to the launch and the commander's pinasse. They had too few provisions on board, but were refused provisions by the other two boats, which were far better equipped with food. On the night of 6-7 July, she was separated from the other two boats. The boat was only seaworthy to a limited extent at this point and had a leak, which they laboriously plugged with pieces of clothing. On 7 July, they stayed within sight of the coast, but did not dare to land because of the strong surf and fear of enemy tribes. There was no fresh water left, so some of the people started drinking salt water. On 8 July, the people who had been on the sloop and the harbour boat were discovered on the coast. The second attempt succeeded in steering the boat through the surf onto the beach. In the process, one of the men's legs was crushed.

Sighting of the distant Argus, first painted sketch for the Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse) by Théodore Géricault 1818 (x) 

Next to the Echo, the Argus had sailed once again to search for the Méduse. She also found her remains and of the 17 that remained, three could still be rescued alive. The raft was then found by her a week later. 15 had survived the horrific event, but 5 died after a few days.

The British governor of St. Louis refused to hand over the administration of the area to the few survivors of the French mission because they were in a physically and mentally miserable condition. In addition, the supplies and military equipment necessary for the takeover had been lost with the Méduse. The French government therefore sent another mission a little later with personnel and material to retake possession of the colony. But the government refused to allow the survivors to return, so the British helped them to get back home.

The legal reappraisal of the events took place before the court martial in Rochefort (Charente-Maritime), which found de Chaumareys guilty and sentenced him to three years' imprisonment in a fortress.  

The painting

Impressed by the accounts of the castaways, the 25-year-old artist Théodore Géricault decided to make a painting of the incident and contacted the victims in 1818. To make his "Raft of the Medusa" as realistic as possible, he sketched the bodies of corpses. The painting shows a moment from the survivors' accounts: Before they were rescued, they saw a ship on the horizon and made their presence known. (The ship can be seen in the upper right corner of the painting). It disappeared again and one surviving crew member reported that "the delirium of joy turned to profound depression and sadness." Two hours later, the ship reappeared and rescued the survivors.

[mia-decorative]

Vase in the form of a mosque lamp, Joseph-Théodore Deck, c. 1870, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture

Light yellow interior; short, bulbous body resting on a splaying foot with a flaring wide neck; neck decorated with 3 circular cartouches surrounding horses with crowns on their backs and dark blue pseudo-Islamic text against a light blue ground; white 'text' and foliage on body; floral designs on foot Théodore Deck's interest and skill in reproducing traditional Persian designs and colors is seen with this vase. It is decorated in arabic lettering and the vivid turquoise blue color often associated with Isnik wares. In fact, the form of this vase is inspired by Islamic mosque lamps made in Syria and Egypt during the 14th century. Ancient objects and motifs from the Middle East proved to be popular sources for decorative objects during the Aesthetic Movement. Size: 14 1/4 x 10 x 10 in. (36.2 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm) Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/214/

[aic-american]

Ewer, Edward Lycett, 1886, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

In 1884 Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Company hired English ceramist Edward Lycett to revitalize its commercially stagnant wares. The decorative scene of a chicken and rooster strutting among raspberry vines on a bright blue background recalls Chinese ceramics, as well as the work of French artist-potter Théodore Deck, in the polychromatic, overglazed decoration with multiple textures. Lycett transformed the artistic identity of the firm by experimenting with clay bodies and glazes, creating works on a monumental scale, and refining designs based on the Aesthetic movement—a combination of Japanese, Chinese, and Near Eastern motifs. Restricted gift of the Antiquarian Society Size: H.: 56.5 × 22.9 × 22.9 cm (22 1/4 × 9 × 9 in.) Medium: Earthenware

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/220027/