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<p>Ile Saint-Louis<br />
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Leica M6 (1999) + Elmarit 28mm v3 (1991) + Ilford FP4+<br />
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<p>Travaux à l'église Saint-Vincent de Paul à Paris</p>

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<p>Hôtel de Sens ☆ Paris</p>

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<p>Héloïse d'Argenteuil (1101-1164) and Pierre Abélard (1079-1142)<br />
Héloïse and Abélard were both theological scholars, first meeting in Paris when she was taught by Abelard; they had both an intellectual and personal relationship, including a pregnancy and secret marriage. Forced to separate, the two correspond to each other, remaining at a monastery and convent; Abelard's teachings eventually led to accusations of heresy resulting in excommunication, although this was lifted. Abélard died shortly thereafter, Heloise became prioress and then abbess of the Paraclete, before finally becoming prelate nullius.<br />
The bones of both were placed in the Oratory of the Paraclete after their deaths, eventually brought to Père Lachaise at the instruction of King Louis XVIII in 1817. The monument was designed by Alexandre Lenoir.<br />
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Taken in Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (Père Lachaise Cemetery)<br />
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The cemetery opened 1804, originally known as 'Cemetery of the East', the first of the municipal cemeteries in Paris to replace Holy Innocents' Cemetery and Parisian graveyards. The area had been a rural property, held by the Jesuits 1626-1762, including Père François d'Aix de La Chaise (1624–1709), the confessor of Louis XIV, from whom the site will eventually get its name. After the expulsion of the Jesuits, the area remained broadly unchanged until its acquisition under Napoleon I's 'Imperial Decree on the Burials of June 12, 1804'. <br />
The cemetery was designed by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, with a naturalistic form, with winding paths and slopes. Despite few interments in early years (13 in 1804, then 44, 49, and 62 in successive years) the cemetery expanded to hold more than 33,000 graves by 1830 and expanded five times (1824, 1829, 1832, 1842, and 1850), moving to a more formal, linear arrangement beyond. <br />
This is the largest of the municipal cemeteries, covering 44 hectares, with over 70,000 plots; it's estimated to hold over 1 million bodies and cremated remains.</p>

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<p>A line of historical bronze cannons mounted on stone walls at Les Invalides in the 7th Arrondissement, Paris, with the Eiffel Tower visible in the background. In camera effect City.</p>

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<p><b>La Leçon de banjo (épreuve b) / The Banjo Lesson</b><br />
Œuvre de Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), américaine<br />
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Vers 1893 <br />
Eau-forte, pointe sèche, aquatinte en couleurs avec rehauts de couleur au pinceau <br />
État définitif (4ª état) <br />
Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art,<br />
collections Jacques Doucet<br />
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Œuvre présentée dans l'exposition "Mary Cassatt L'indépendante"<br />
Musée d'Orsay, Paris<br />
<i>Pour marquer le centième anniversaire de la mort de l’artiste, le musée d’Orsay organise une grande exposition consacrée à Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). Il s’agit, en France, d’un événement attendu : les musées nationaux n’ont encore jamais dédié d’exposition majeure à Mary Cassatt, membre actif du groupe impressionniste et l’un de ses piliers...</i> (Extrait du site de l'exposition)<br />
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<p><b>Jeune fille au banjo / Girl with a Banjo</b><br />
Œuvre de Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), américaine<br />
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1893-1894 <br />
Pastel sur papier vergé beige <br />
Paris, musée d'Orsay <br />
nouvelle acquisition<br />
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<i>Ce pastel remarquable qui irradie de couleurs est en lien avec La Femme moderne. Cassatt s'y révèle comme une pastelliste puissante et audacieuse. Elle utilise notamment les bâtons secs dans leur longueur, à plat, pour créer une aura colorée autour de la jeune fille aux cheveux auburn. Reprenant le thème de la joueuse de banjo, c'est cette fois Joséphine Schramm qui est à l'instrument, sans sa sœur Blanche. Du vivant de Cassatt, ce pastel a appartenu au célèbre critique d'art Roger Marx.</i> (Extrait du cartel)<br />
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Œuvre présentée dans l'exposition "Mary Cassatt L'indépendante"<br />
Musée d'Orsay, Paris<br />
<i>Pour marquer le centième anniversaire de la mort de l’artiste, le musée d’Orsay organise une grande exposition consacrée à Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). Il s’agit, en France, d’un événement attendu : les musées nationaux n’ont encore jamais dédié d’exposition majeure à Mary Cassatt, membre actif du groupe impressionniste et l’un de ses piliers...</i> (Extrait du site de l'exposition)<br />
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<p><u>The Postcard</u><br />
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A postally unused postcard that is one of a series of 30 postcards featuring the work of Johannes Vermeer published by Magna Books. The card has a divided back.<br />
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<u>The Astronomer</u><br />
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The Astronomer is an oil-on-canvas painting that was completed in 1668 by Johannes Vermeer, a painter of the Dutch Golden Age. <br />
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Measuring 51 cm × 45 cm (20 in × 18 in), The Astronomer is now in the collection of the Louvre in Paris.<br />
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Portrayals of scientists were a favourite topic in 17th.-century Dutch painting, and Vermeer's oeuvre includes both this astronomer and the slightly later The Geographer. Both are believed to portray the same man, possibly Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. <br />
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A 2017 study indicated that the canvas for the two works came from the same bolt of material, confirming their close relationship. It has been proposed that Vermeer used a camera obscura as an aid to reconstruct the geometry of the rooms and the objects in his paintings. Both paintings portray the same room and furniture, slightly rearranged.<br />
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The painting shows an astronomer looking at a globe. The astronomer's profession is shown by the celestial globe (version by Jodocus Hondius) and the book on the table, the 1621 edition of Adriaan Metius's Institutiones Astronomicae Geographicae.<br />
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Symbolically, the volume is open to Book III, a section advising the astronomer to seek "inspiration from God," and the painting on the wall shows the Finding of Moses—Moses may represent knowledge and science ("learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians"). <br />
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It is notable that a telescope is absent from the scene; Jacob Metius is credited by his brother, Adriaan Metius, as the inventor of the telescope.<br />
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-- <u>Provenance and History of The Astronomer</u><br />
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The provenance of The Astronomer can be traced back to the 27th. of April 1713, when it was sold at the Rotterdam sale of an unknown collector, together with The Geographer. <br />
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The presumed buyer was Hendrik Sorgh, whose estate sale held in Amsterdam on the 28th. of March 1720 included both The Astronomer and The Geographer, which were described as 'An Astrologist (sic) by Vermeer of Delft, top-notch' and 'Similar by ditto, no less'. <br />
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Until 1800, The Astronomer and The Geographer had always accompanied each other. This was because they were considered to be pendants due to their similar subject matters and dates of composition being closely related. <br />
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Between 1881 and 1888, the The Astrononer was sold by the Paris art dealer Léon Gauchez to the banker and art collector Alphonse James de Rothschild. It was then brought to London for his private collection, where it became part of the Rothschild family fortune. It was a prized possession, carefully being passed down and inherited by his son Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild after his death.<br />
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The painting was seized at Édouard de Rothschild’s home by the Nazi Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) in 1940 for the occupied territories after the German invasion of France. <br />
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This was part of an operation where thousands of paintings, sculptures and drawings were seized and bought, often using force, and sent to Germany. This operation was due to Hitler's constant and increasing interest in the State's control over artworks. <br />
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In his autobiographical book Mein Kampf, he violently criticized modern art (cubism, futurism, dadaism) where he wrote that they were “products of degenerate minds” and went on to argue that:<br />
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"It is the duty of the State, and of its <br />
leaders, to prevent a people from <br />
falling under the influence of spiritual <br />
madness.” <br />
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The Astronomer was taken to the Jeu de Paume museum and declared “Property of the Third Reich” by a team of German art historians and officials. The painting's value was estimated, and a small swastika was stamped on the back of the painting in black ink. <br />
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It, along with hundreds of other works of art, was sent by a special train from Paris to Germany. It was considered to be among the works of highest historical and artistic value in the Nazi inventory.<br />
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On the 3rd. November 1940, Alfred Rosenberg sent Martin Bormann a note in which he expressed satisfaction with the seizure of The Astronomer:<br />
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"In great haste, the report to the führer, <br />
included herein, will I believe bring him <br />
great joy — I am pleased moreover to <br />
inform the führer that the painting by <br />
Jan (sic) Vermeer of Delft, to which he <br />
made mention, has been found among <br />
the works confiscated from the Rothchilds.<br />
— Alfred Rosenberg"<br />
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The Astronomer was added to the private collection of Adolf Hitler where he coveted the painting as his interest in art and the state's control over it constantly increased. <br />
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In his will during the final hours of his life before his suicide on the 30th of April 1945, Hitler expressed his desire for this painting to become the center piece of a new museum he hoped to be built in his hometown:<br />
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"The paintings in my collections, which <br />
I purchased over the course of years, <br />
were not assembled for any personal gain, <br />
but for the creation of a museum in my <br />
native city of Linz on the Danube. It is my <br />
most sincere wish that this legacy be duly <br />
executed.<br />
— Adolf Hitler, 30th. April 1945."<br />
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The painting was returned to the Rothschilds after the war, and was acquired by the French state as giving in payment of inheritance taxes in 1983 and then exhibited at the Louvre.<br />
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In 1997, The Astronomer was displayed alongside its pendant piece, The Geographer, for a temporary exhibition, first at the Louvre, then later at the Städel Museum. This exhibition was the first time the two pieces had been reunited since their separation in 1797.<br />
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<u>Johannes Vermeer</u><br />
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Johannes Vermeer (1632 – 1675) was a Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his luminous, quiet domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. <br />
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Working entirely in his hometown of Delft, he produced a remarkably small body of work—only around 34 to 36 surviving paintings—yet is regarded today as one of the greatest masters of Western art.<br />
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-- <u>Vermeer's Life and Career</u><br />
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• Delft roots and family. Baptised in Delft in October 1632, Vermeer married Catharina Bolnes in 1653 and converted to Catholicism. <br />
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The couple had 15 children (11 of whom survived infancy) and lived with her wealthy mother, Maria Thins.<br />
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• Day job as an art dealer. Because he painted slowly—averaging only two or three canvases a year—Vermeer earned his primary living as an innkeeper and art dealer, following in his father's footsteps. He also served as head of Delft's Guild of Saint Luke.<br />
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• Financial ruin and obscurity. Following the French invasion of the Dutch Republic in 1672, the local art market collapsed. Vermeer died in December 1675 at the age of 43, leaving his family deeply in debt. <br />
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For nearly two centuries, he remained largely forgotten outside the Netherlands until French art critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger championed his work in the 1860's.<br />
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-- <u>Vermeer's Artistic Style and Technique</u><br />
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• Mastery of light. Vermeer is celebrated for rendering soft, pearly daylight entering from a left-hand window, capturing subtle reflections on fabrics, glass, maps, and pearls.<br />
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• Expensive pigments. He famously used costly natural ultramarine (ground from lapis lazuli) generously across his compositions—even in underpaintings and shadows—in <br />
order to achieve rich blues and luminous tones.<br />
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• Optical precision. Many art historians believe Vermeer used a camera obscura (an optical device projecting an image onto a surface) to help compose his scenes and achieve his distinctive depth-of-field and dot-painted highlights.<br />
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-- <u>Vermeer's Famous Works</u><br />
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• The Milkmaid (c. 1658). Located in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, it elevates a simple kitchen maid pouring milk into a monumental, dignified study of light and texture.<br />
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• View of Delft (c. 1660–1661). One of his rare outdoor landscapes, capturing his hometown's skyline reflected in calm water under breaking clouds.<br />
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• Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665). Housed at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, this tronie (character study) depicts a young woman in an exotic turban looking over her shoulder.<br />
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• The Art of Painting (c. 1666–1668). Held at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, this complex allegory shows an artist from behind painting a model posed as Clio, the muse of history.</p>

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<p>A reflection in an ornate gold-framed mirror at the Musee Rodin in Paris shows visitors observing white sculptures in a quiet gallery room with a crystal chandelier.</p>

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