The Lovers’ Chronicle 4 October – good enough – art by Francesco Solimena, Jean-Francois Millet & Frederic Remington

04 October 2023 By Rhett 0 In Love, Poems, Songs

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Do you have any love confessions? Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

i admit the need,

entangled in you,

i have never admitted

my pretendin’

and posturin’,

nothin’ but bluffin’

i cannot deny

what brings

such satisfaction

to the cravin’ within

therefore, i turn

to face those eyes,

fixed upon me

what can they do

but fill me

as night closes in

admit
what never was
all pretendin’
and posturin’ aside

a longin’
as deep as anything
ever felt by anyone

yet deny i cannot
what my hopeful self
disowns

so i turn my back
and ride away
best let sleepin’
feelin’s lie

as is shall be
good enough

listenin’ to Janis…
i know you are
as i am
to miss you
is to…
i do not laugh
like i did
i do not smile
like it did

a man left lonely
since you have been gone
i remember
those last moments
the way you felt
the way you looked
as you turned to leave

what good is why
at this point
how the hell
will that help
choices made
and not
cowboy up
and live with it
it is what it is

never about pity
no tears in my beer
the verse flows
and good friends
help with gittin’ by
that will surely sustain

still…
with nothin’ left to lose,
i will never fergit
when feelin’ good
was good enough
for you and me

A Confession

I admit the need,
Entangled in her limbs,
I have never admitted
My pretendin’ and posturin’,
Nothin’ but bluffin’,
Nothin’ but coquetry

I long for her, and yet
I cannot deny what
My better self disowns,
For my distraction
Brings such satisfaction
To the cravin’ within.

Therefore I turn my back
On her and ride away
Those questionin’ eyes
That are fixed upon me
What can they do but haunt me
As empty night closes in

The Song of the Day is “Confess My Love” by Leah.

Francesco Solimena
Self-portrait, 1730

Today is the birthday of Francesco Solimena (Canale di Serino, near Avellino; October 4, 1657 – April 3, 1747 Naples); painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen.

Gallery

Diana and Endymion

The Royal Hunt of Dido and Aeneas

Portrait of a woman
Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, 1704
Madonna and Child
Noli me tangere
The Assumption
The Annunciation
Jacob’s Dream

The Abduction of Orithyia

Jean-François Millet
Portrait of Millet by Nadar. Date unknown.

Today is the birthday of Jean-François Millet (Gruchy, Gréville-Hague, Normandy; October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875 Barbizon); painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers. He can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement.

In 1841, Millet married Pauline-Virginie Ono, and they moved to Paris. After rejections at the Salon of 1843 and Pauline’s death by consumption, Millet returned again to Cherbourg. In 1845 Millet moved to Le Havre with Catherine Lemaire, whom he would marry in a civil ceremony in 1853.

Gallery

The Sheepfold. In this painting by Millet, the waning moon throws a mysterious light across the plain between the villages of Barbizon and Chailly. The Walters Art Museum.

Woman Baking Bread, 1854. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

The Sower, 1850. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Gleaners, 1857. Musée d’Orsay, Paris

The Angelus, 1857–59. Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Hunting Birds at Night, 1874, Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Potato Harvest (1855) The Walters Art Museum.

Portrait of Louis-Alexandre Marolles, 1841, Princeton University Art Museum
Going to Work, 1851–53
Shepherdess Seated on a Rock, 1856
Bringing home the calf born in the fields, ca. 1860, Princeton University Art Museum
Shepherd Tending His Flock, early 1860s
Potato Planters, 1861
The Goose Girl, 1863
The Coast of Gréville, undated National Museum, Stockholm

Frederic Remington

Today is the birthday of Frederic Sackrider Remington (Canton, New York; October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909 Ridgefield, Connecticut); painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry.

Remington married Eva Caten in 1884 and they returned to Kansas City. She was unhappy with his saloon life and was unimpressed by the sketches of saloon inhabitants that Remington regularly showed her. When his real occupation became known, she left him and returned to Ogdensburg. With his wife gone and with business doing badly, Remington started to sketch and paint in earnest, and bartered his sketches for essentials. With financial backing from his Uncle Bill, Remington was able to pursue his art career and support his wife.

Gallery

Remington in the football uniform of the day, canvas jacket and flannel trousers

Arizona cow-boy (1901 lithograph)

Aiding a Comrade, 1890

The Blanket Signal, 1894/1898

Shotgun Hospitality, 1908, oil on canvas, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

The Stampede; Horse Thieves, 1909. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Remington estate ‘Endion’ in New Rochelle, New York. The Gothic-revival cottage was designed by Alexander J. Davis.

The Lookout

A New Year on the Cimarron, 1903, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Mier Expedition- The Drawing of the Black Bean, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Smoke Signal; 1905; Oil on canvas; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Amon G. Carter Collection; 1961.250

The Emigrants

The Flight

“The Right of the Road” — A Hazardous Encounter on a Rocky Mountain Trail; 1900; Oil on canvas; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Amon G. Carter Collection

The Hunters’ Supper
The Outlier
The Parley
Fight for the Waterhole
Indians Simulating Buffalo
The Scout: Friends or Foes?, 1902–1905, oil on canvas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Remington’s Ridden Down (1905–1906) depicts an Indian in defeat with his horse exhausted, stoically calling the spirits while awaiting his fate
Episode of the Buffalo Gun
The Hussar
The Gendarme
Mounted Indian Scout
Uhlan
Scouts Climbing a Mountain
The Old Stage-Coach of the Plains, 1901
A Map in the Sand
A Dash for the Timber, 1889, depicts cowboys in the Southwest shooting at Apaches in the rear. One of the eight riders is already wounded but remains on his horse.
His First Lesson, 1903
The Call for Help