Early 20th Century

We're heading to the early 20th Century yet again, and we start with the furst of two athletes from Professor Desbonnet's photographic work.  I had to do a Google Images search to learn that much as my file was labeled "Unbekannt" or German for unknown.  Still don't know his name.

 

Henri Gance

Gold Medalist Henri Gance represented France in weghtlifting at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.

 

Kettle bell

Kettle bells have been around for a very long time.

 

Tension

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Stowitts

Nicholas Muray of New York took this photo of American ballet dancer and painter Hubert Stowitts.

 

1905

This one came with only a date, 1905, but the model looks very much 

like one who worked for Arthur Schulz around that time.

 

Cadine

Here we see Ernest Cadine in a shot from the combined photographic

 and athletic studio of Professor Desbonnet in Paris.

 

Seaside contortionist

This guy had to have a lot of confidence to do that on rocks in surf.

 

Muscle thinker

This might be a muscular take on Rodin's The Thinker.

 

Paranoid

Our last early 20th Century model reminds me of I guy I knew in college 

who dropped out in his sophmore year due to a diagnose of acute paranoia.

 

Leftover Art

Today I'm posting ten art works that were leftover from more tightly themed sets.

We start with an unnamed piect by Pierro-Auguste Cot from 1865.

 

Cain

Julius Paulsen painted Cain in 1891.

I think he is being marked as a murderer here.

 

Godard

This academic drawing by Rene-Jules Godard is from about 1906.

 

Charon

Pierre Subleyras painted Charon Ferrying the Shades in 1738.

Talk about your rosy cheeks!

 

 

Spartacus

German artist Willi Geiger painted Spartacus in 1940, but because of his anti-Nazi politics it wasn't exhibited until after the war.  Herr Geiger was fired from his job as an art professor shortly after the Nazis took power, but he laid low, survived the war, and made a comeback in 1946.

 

Visconti

Eliseu Visconti did this drawing in 1889, and it's my favorite of the day.

Below we see his self portrait made a few years later.

Disclosure:  I removed heavy yellowing from the upper image.

 

Unknown

All I have on this one is a date, 1890.

 

Phaeton

Domenico Riccio painted Phaeton Driving the Chariot of the Sun in 1558.

 

Rixens

This academit work is by Jean-Andre Rixens.  The model here appears 

in a considerable number of drawing and paintings from around 1868 to 1875.

 

Eckersberg

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Camera Man Day

Today's theme is men with cameras, and we start with the least exciting photo of the lot.

 

Equipment

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Volleyball court

A volleyball court with a primitive scorekeeping dial is the setting for this one.

 

Beach II

Here's a different beach guy from a different angle.

 

Snapshot of a snapshot

Here we have an amateur snapshot of an amateur taking a snapshot.

I'd love to see the rest of the photos from this outing.

 

Happy Photographer

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Ladder

The bush factor is high for this cameraman on a ladder.

 

W&B?

This looks like it might have been taken from a Wyngate and Bevins magazine.

 

Blond

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Repeat

This last one is a repeat from the first weeks of this blog,

so some of you many not have seen it.