The Lovers’ Chronicle 12 January – again – art by Jean Béraud & John Singer Sargent

12 January 2024 By Rhett 0 In Random

Dear Zazie,

I am moved beyond words by your latest note. Thank you. You know your man. That is exactly what I would have done. Well, I might have stopped to thank them, for their loss is my gain. Oh, and that grin would have probably turned to a big smile as I walked out the door. Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

as you know, been writin’

and wonderin’ for a long time

about whether i would ever

unsaddle and stop wanderin’

always before, it just felt like

when i stopped, i was only

stoppin’ long enough

to check the binds

and jump another fence

i believe it is time

the cowboy gets the girl

Pale Love, Pale Rider

well i just want to know

how the hell you let

yourself feel

after all the miles

you shoulda known,

only stop long enough

to check the binds

what you were built for,

no sense of permanence

with purpose found

only in this vision

yes, play it that way,

the way it shall be

it changes you
what could i suggest
but to stop often
and take it in

the celebration found
in the smallest details

a sip of espresso
a once ago kiss
words and the feelin’s
they conjure in us
the tug of what was
in a pulse before
the veil falls

just watched
Walk the Line
yep, again
will never git enough
of Johnny and June

‘parently,
it was too much
to ask, fate and god
and magic and hope
to bring me my June
she ain’t comin’

let us see,
what else is on…

oh sweet jesus,
not sure i have the strength
to watch Cold Mountain
yep, again

oh good,
Hustle is on
think i can handle
Reynolds and Deneuve

to relate the looks or thoughts
through rhythm or rhyme
through light
or otherwise

to recall the sensations,
from mutual passion
to be confined
by the comfort
of those visions

thus it cannot be supposed
to have the will
to go there again

misfortune or miracle
blessin’ or curse…

to have been there,
to have felt,
to have been
half of a whole

Jean Béraud
Self portrait (ca. 1909)

Today is the birthday of Jean Béraud (Saint Petersburg; January 12, 1848 – October 4, 1935 Paris); painter known for his numerous paintings depicting the life of Paris, and the nightlife of Paris society. His paintings of the Champs Elysees, cafés, Montmartre and the banks of the Seine are detailed illustrations of everyday Parisian life during the “Belle Époque”.

Gallery

L’escrimeuse

Symphony in Red and Gold

A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts

Café Gloppe

Paris scenes
Blanche Vesnić (née Ulman)
Le Cafe de Paris
La Lettre
Personnages
Au Bistro
Après la faute
La Partie De Billard
Les Buveurs d’absinthe. 1908
À la salle Graffard
Representation at the Theatre des Varietes

Paris cityscapes
The Milliner on the Champs Elysées
Sortant De La Madeleine, Paris
Home, Driver
l’Église de la Sainte-Trinité
The Wait
La Sortie du bourgeois
Le Boulevard Saint-Denis
Jeune femme traversant le boulevard
Boulevard des Capucines
Paris Kiosk 1880-1884, Walters Art Museum
Parisienne place de la Concorde
Le Bal Mabile

John Singer Sargent
Self-Portrait, 1906, oil on canvas, Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

And today is the birthday of John Singer Sargent (Florence; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925 London); artist, and one of the leading portrait painter of his generation. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.

Sargent was a lifelong bachelor.

Gallery

Fanny Watts, Sargent’s childhood friend. The first painting at Paris Salon, 1877, Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

An Out-of-Doors Study, 1889, depicting Paul César Helleu sketching with his wife Alice Guérin. The Brooklyn Museum, New York.

El Jaleo (Spanish Dancer), c. 1879–82, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Portrait of Madame X 1884

Mrs Henry White, 1883, Corcoran Gallery of Art

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, 1893, National Gallery of Scotland

Morning Walk, 1888, private collection

Sargent emphasized Almina Wertheimer’s exotic beauty in 1908 by dressing her en turquerie.

Gondoliers’ Siesta, c. 1904, watercolor

Muddy Alligators, 1917, watercolor

Theodore Roosevelt, 1903.

Rosina, 1878, depicting Rosina Ferrara

Arsène Vigeant, 1885, Musées de Metz

Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood, 1885, the Tate, London

Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, 1885, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Mrs. Cecil Wade, 1886 The Nelson-Atkins Museum
Elizabeth Allen Marquand, 1887, Princeton University Art Museum
Edwin Booth, 1890, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Mrs. Hugh Hammersley, 1892
Frederick Law Olmsted, 1895
Mrs. Carl Meyer and her Children, 1896
Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears (Sarah Choate Sears), 1899
The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant, 1899
Lady Helen Vincent in Venice, 1904
Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel, 1903
Mrs. Waldorf Astor, 1909
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, 1914, Royal Geographical Society
Cora, Countess of Strafford, 1908
John D. Rockefeller, 1917

A Dinner Table at Night, 1884, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Street in Venice, c. 1882, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Misses Vickers, 1884, Weston Park Museum
Dans Les Oliviers, 1878
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885–86, the Tate, London
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1889
The Sitwell Family, 1900. From left: Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), Sir George Sitwell, Lady Ida Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988), and Sir Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969)
The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907

Bedouins, c. 1905–06, watercolor, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Villa di Marlia, Lucca, 1910, watercolor, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Artist in the Simplon, c. 1909, watercolor, Fogg Museum of Art
On the Deck of the Yacht Constellation, 1924, watercolor, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Karer See, 1914, watercolor
Simplon Pass- The Tease, 1911, transparent watercolor, opaque watercolor and wax over graphite pencil on paper
The Garden Wall, 1910, watercolor
Gourds, 1906–10, watercolor, Brooklyn Museum