#Thérèse Feuillant

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Portrait Of The Marquise De Miramon, Née, Thérèse Feuillant, 1866

James Tissot

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Pink Dresses in Oil Paintings (details)

Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, The Pybus family, c. 1769

John Singleton Copley, Young Lady with a Bird and a Dog, c. 1767

Edward Hughes, Juliette Gordon Low, c. 1887

Antonio Cabral Bejarano, A Bolero Dancer, c. 1842

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Blind-Mans Buff, c. 1750/1752

Gustav Klimt, Sonja Knips, c. 1897/1898

Charles H. M. Kerr, The Rose Coloured Gown (Miss Giles), c. 1896

James Tissot, Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant, c. 1866

Frédéric Bazille, The Pink Dress, c. 1864

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Portrait Of The Marquise De Miramon, Née, Thérèse Feuillant"

James Tissot

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1860s dresses (from top to bottom)-

ca. 1860 Lady by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Christie's - Live auction 2282 Lot 304). From artsdiary365.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/portrait-of-a-lady-by-f-x-winterhalter-christies-new-york/; fixed cracks & spots w Pshop 2088X2574.

1862 Viscondessa de Meneses, Carlota Emília de Mac-Mahon Pereira Guimarães by Luís de Meneses, her husband (Museu do Chiado - Lisboa, Portugal). From Wikimedia 1900X2874.

1863 Comtesse Adolphe de Rougé, née Marie de Saint-Georges de Vérac by Charles Gomien (location ?). From Wikimedia 2496X3086.

1863 (or after) Friederike Marie Lau, née Meudtner by Eduard Magnus (auctioned by Lempertz). From their Web site 1840X2378.

1864 Mlle. L.L. (Young Lady in a Red Jacket) by Jacques Joseph Tissot (Musée d'Orsay - Paris, France). From museoteca.com/r/en/work/1062/tissot_james/portrait_de_mlle_l_l_/!/ 3164X3976.

1866 Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant by Jacques Joseph Tissot (Getty Museum - Los Angeles, California, USA). From the lost gallery's photostream on flickr shadows inc. exposure 2898X4828.

1860s cape (Fashion Museum - Bath, Somerset, UK). From tumblr.com/lenkaastrelenkaa 1280X1811.

The fitting by Jean Alcide Henri Boichard (Christie's Live Auction 5875 Lot 55). Fixed spots with Photoshop 4069X2816.

[emvidal]

Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née, Thérèse Feuillant. Oil on canvas.

By James Tissot, 1866.

Source. Fine Art Museum of San Francisco

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Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née, Thérèse Feuillant (detail) by Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1866.

[vivelareine]

We crossed the garden of the Tuileries in the midst of a few National guards, who still remained faithful. On the way we were told that the Assembly would not receive my father. The terrace of the Feuillants, along which we had to pass, was full of wretches, who assailed us with insults; one of them cried out: “No women, or we will kill them all!” My mother was not frightened at the threat and continued her way.

–Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, on the events of August 10th, 1792

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Mahler street’s ghost

I’m sharing today a short ghost story/urban legend that I discovered online. It’s probably more of an excuse to write about the tragic story of one of Marie-Antoinette’s most loyal friend, Marie-Thérèse-Louise de Savoie-Carignan, 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦.

That ghost thing is not much documented, unlike Lamballe’s last moments: her death has been described in many versions and with many macabre details. 

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Our narrative begins in the throes of the French Revolution, with the events of August 10th 1792. The royal family is incarcerated in the Feuillant convent, then in the Temple Tower after the assault on the Tuileries.

The Princesse de Lamballe follows the queen in custody, but the royals are soon isolated from their inner circle. She’s transferred a few days later in the 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦. The building doesn’t exist anymore, but it was located in the current Mahler street (at the number 3).

𝘓𝘢 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 is one of the prisons targeted by the outraged crowd during the September Massacres, five days of mass summary executions that led to the death of up to 1400 prisoners (nearly half of the jail population of Paris).

The Princesse de Lamballe meets the same fate: she’s slaughtered by the crowd after a sham trial on September 3rd.

She has been stabbed to death as soon as she stepped out of the improvised court. She’s then decapitated, her head is placed upon a spike and displayed in the streets. Some sensationalists texts reports that her heart is ripped out of her chest, her breast and genitalia chopped off.

The mutilated corpse is then supposedly left among the piles of corpses that lie in the area.

Legend has it that the Princesse de Lamballe is still wandering in Mahler street, looking for her head, heart and body parts.

🖼️: 𝘓𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦 (detail), painting by Maxime Faivre, 1908, Musée de la Révolution Française.

📚 Selected sources:

Louis-Sébastien MERCIER, 𝘓𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘶𝘷𝘦𝘢𝘶 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴, Paris, Fuchs, Pougens et Cramer, 1797.

B. C. HARDY, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦; 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, Londres, A. Constable, 1908.

https://www.lepoint.fr/culture/journees-du-patrimoine-les-fantomes-de-paris-2-la-princesse-de-lamballe-19-09-2015-1966153_3.php

https://www.lhistoire.fr/septembre-1792-de-la-rumeur-au-massacre

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James Tissot. Part 2- A change of style and japonisme

James Tissot. Part 2- A change of style and japonisme

Self Portrait of James Jacques Joseph Tissot (c.1898)

At the end of Part 1 of this blog about Tissot I told you that around 1863 he decided to change his artistic style. He decided to abandon his medieval style championed by the likes of the Belgian painter Henri Leys and enter the world of modern day portraiture.

Portrait of Mlle L.L… by James Tissot (1864)

This change of style can be seen in…

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James Tissot - Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née, Thérèse Feuillant, 1866 (detail)

[achasma]

Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née, Thérèse Feuillant (detail) by Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1866.

[vivelareine]

We crossed the garden of the Tuileries in the midst of a few National guards, who still remained faithful. On the way we were told that the Assembly would not receive my father. The terrace of the Feuillants, along which we had to pass, was full of wretches, who assailed us with insults; one of them cried out: "No women, or we will kill them all!" My mother was not frightened at the threat and continued her way.

--Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, on the events of August 10th, 1792

[just-art5]

James Tissot - Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née, Thérèse Feuillant, 1866