Friday, January 27, 2006

French Miscellanea


The above 2 sketches are by Paul Eugène Mesplès
for a 1926 publication: la Pipe Cassée de Vadé.
Jean Joseph Vadé wrote a 4 song Parisian poem
(la Pipe Cassée) in the 18th century
['poème épi-tragi-poissardi-héroïcomique'].


From the 17th century Livre de portraiture d'Annibal Carrache.
[doctored detail]
Update: Annibale Carrachi (Italian artist)



All these illustrations come from La bibliothèque électronique de Lisieux - there are quite a few images from rare publications linked from that gallery page.
[via the wonderful Netlex News website]
Posted by peacay at

4 comments:

  1. pita ou franck28 January, 2006 16:06

    A link with very interesting pictures and text ,you are a magician to find so much good thing
    thank you .

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  2. peacay28 January, 2006 16:30

    Thanks pita. There are some beautiful images in there - but the magician is at Netlex: a very good weblog I just discovered.

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  3. Mirko Monico09 June, 2009 19:04

    Hey Annibal Carrache is Annibale Carracci: the famous Italian painter. He is not french...

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  4. peacay09 June, 2009 23:04

    Mirko, you are of course correct but the album ---

    http://www.bmlisieux.com/galeries/carrache/carrache.htm
    ---

    is held by the Lisieux library, who have 'frenchified' his name. (But I'll add a note above, thanks)

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