My search is over!
Dec. 28th, 2011 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalWell, one of them is, that is ;-)
I've been trying to track down this painting that was hanging in my high school English teacher's classroom. And after FIFTEEN years, I've found it! I was at a book sale a few months ago and the painting was on the cover, among others. I finally found the book in the storage room and Wikipediaed it (yeah, that's a word; get over it).
The painting is Rubens Peale With a Geranium by Rembrandt Peale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubens_Peale
Rubens is 17 in the painting. His whole family were artists, but he went a different route and opened his own museum: The New York Museum of Natural History and Science. And then he ended up keeping a journal and painting still lifes and landscapes anyway. I have a total crush on the man :-) And now I kind of want to track down the Peale Museum (now the Municipal Museum of Baltimore). Or maybe the Maryland Historical Society, as that's where the Peale collection is now.
Yeah, I love me some geeky, nature-loving men! I'm so relieved to finally find out about this painting that was in my head for a decade and a half!
I've been trying to track down this painting that was hanging in my high school English teacher's classroom. And after FIFTEEN years, I've found it! I was at a book sale a few months ago and the painting was on the cover, among others. I finally found the book in the storage room and Wikipediaed it (yeah, that's a word; get over it).
The painting is Rubens Peale With a Geranium by Rembrandt Peale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubens_Peale
Rubens is 17 in the painting. His whole family were artists, but he went a different route and opened his own museum: The New York Museum of Natural History and Science. And then he ended up keeping a journal and painting still lifes and landscapes anyway. I have a total crush on the man :-) And now I kind of want to track down the Peale Museum (now the Municipal Museum of Baltimore). Or maybe the Maryland Historical Society, as that's where the Peale collection is now.
Yeah, I love me some geeky, nature-loving men! I'm so relieved to finally find out about this painting that was in my head for a decade and a half!
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Date: 2011-12-30 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-30 05:22 pm (UTC)Also, it's speculated that that's the very first Geranium ever in the "new world." The book entry that talks about the painting goes into all this analysis of the two pairs of glasses, the eyeglass reflection, and the way he's not only holding the flowerpot possessively but also that his fingers are touching the wet dirt inside the pot. And I thought people went a bit extreme in literary analysis! Good thing I was never an art major. Though, if I had been, maybe I would have found this painting years ago :-)
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Date: 2012-09-10 06:25 am (UTC)I'll admit, it is kind of weird that he's both wearing glasses and holding a pair... you'd think that his only pair would be on his face.