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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, artist
French, 1825 - 1905
The Broken Pitcher, 1891
oil on canvas
53 x 33 (134.6 x 83.8 cm)
Gift of M.H. de Young 53162
Born in La Rochelle, Bouguereau attended high school in Pons and in 1842 entered the Municipal School of Drawing and Painting at Bordeaux. In 1846 he moved to Paris and was accepted into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Studies in Rome from 1850 to 1854 further reinforced the classical direction of his early training. Favorable critical attention to his works at the Salons of 1854 and 1855 and the Universal Exposition of 1855 brought a number of commissions and helped launch his career as one of the most famous and influential nineteenth-century academic painters. Bouguereau was appointed professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1875 and elected a member of the Institute of France and an Officer of the ;egion of Honor in 1876. Many other honors and commissions followed. In 1896 in his second marriage he wedded Elizabeth Jane Gardner, an American painter and longtime friend and pupil. He died in 1905 at his home in La Rochelle.
The Royal Ballet: Giselle 2021 (Osipova & Clarke)
The most famous ballet of the Romantic era and a significant work in The Royal Ballet’s repertory: Peter Wright’s hallmark production of Giselle returns to the Royal Opera House 4 Nov - 3 Dec 2021 with a special digital stream on 3 Dec and on demand for 30 days.
Company: The Royal Ballet
Choreography: Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli
Music: Adolphe Adam Edited by Lars Payne
Scenario: Théophile Gautier after Heinrich Heine
Production: Peter Wright
Additional choreography: Peter Wright
Designer: John Macfarlane
Original lighting: Jennifer Tipton
Lighting re-created by David Finn
Cast
Giselle: Natalia Osipova
Albrecht: Reece Clarke
Queen of the Willis: Mayara Magri
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By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Maker: André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen print
Size: 4.1" X 2.5"
Location: France
Object No. 2015.723
Shelf: E-16-NAPO
Publication:
Other Collections: GEM
Notes: TBAL
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Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French
b. LaRochelle, France 1825; d. LaRochelle, France 1905
Oil on canvas
Aurora, or Dawn, was one of Bouguereau’s most acclaimed works. It is the first in a series of canvases representing the four Times of Day: the others were Dusk in 1882; Night in 1883; and Day in 1884. Allegorical representations of the four Times of Day date back at least to the Renaissance period. Bouguereau’s Times of Day are a study in complements and contrasts; when viewed together they reveal harmonies of line, form, and color. They exemplify his standards of ideal beauty and feminine grace in the 1880s.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
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Maker:
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: halftone
Size: 3 in x 4 3/4 in
Location:
Object No. 2022.571
Shelf: D-22
Publication: Art Journal, 1893
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Rank: 50
Notes: Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Goupil, was born on March 7, 1806 in Paris. He was the son of Auguste Goupil, pharmacist, and Anne Lutton (1774-1849) and ancestor of Hubert Drouais. He became a leader of the art and publishing industry and one of the most important art dealers and publishers of the 19th century. From 1827, Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Goupil engaged in the business of printing and publishing original prints and interpretation in several countries, most importantly in France, England and Germany. He married Victoire Brincard (1808-1886), originally from Belfort, in August 1829, and had five children: Léon, Amélie, Albert, Marie and Blanche. After the disappearance of his first partner, Henry Rittner in 1840, Goupil found a new partner Théodore Vibert (1816-1850) the following year in 1841. Between 1845-1848, Goupil and Vibert opened a branch in London and then in New York at 289 Broadway. Vibert died in 1850, leaving several children that Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Goupil took care of. In addition to a printer-publisher, Goupil also became a dealer in paintings and drawings. Goupil signed a contract in 1845 with the painter Charles Landelle, who undertook not to dispose of his reproduction rights before having offered it to Maison Goupil. Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Goupil founded the international company Goupil & Cie in 1850, which in a few decades became one of the greatest art dealers of the 19th century. Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Goupil was elected mayor of Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains (Calvados) from 1875 to 1893 where he owned the "castle of the whole city".[citation needed] He was appointed officer of the Legion of Honor in 1877. Having already lost his eldest son in 1855, Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Goupil decided to gradually retire from business from 1884, when his second son Albert died. Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Goupil died on May 9, 1893 in Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains.
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ift.tt/1MN4Mws "Louis Dodier as a Prisoner" by French photographer Louis Adolphe Humbert de Molard (France - 1847) [5000x3800] #HistoryPorn #history #retro ift.tt/1ppdQMH via Histolines
« Le 12 septembre 1866, Habert, qui
vivait alors au Raincy, signa un contrat d'association avec Adolphe
Block et poursuivit son œuvre avec Cendrillon, La Dame Blanche
et La Muette de Portici. »
S: Diableries.B.M/ D.P & P.F.
Harbert pressé par Block ?
Dans tous les cas petite réalisation.
Plan très peu profond, voir l'anaglyphe et aucun effet et belles finitions dans le décor.
Les petites mains anonymes devront rattraper tout !
Elles vont se surpasser....
Double perçage total, souvent les perçages diffère d'un côté et de l'autre, et un travail admirable ( des deux cotés aussi) sur le char de cendrillon. Des perçage coloré or/rouge et vierge ,avec un effet bluffant dessiné a la cire elle aussi différemment colorée ! On voit très bien l’écrasement du papier de soie sur la couche albuminée. ( en presse ? )Toujours à gauche une vue sur-contrastée et sur-colorée pour apprécier ce travail de fourmis véritables artistes !
Vous avez remarqué le chandelier sur la cheminée.
Il a droit lui aussi à son perçage...
Herbert pressed by Block?
In all cases small realization.
Very shallow plan, see the anaglyph and no effect and beautiful finishes in the decor.
The anonymous little hands will have to make up for everything!
They are going to surpass themselves....
Double total drilling, often drilling differs on one side and the other, and admirable work (on both sides also) on the cinderella tank.
Gold/red and virgin coloured piercings, with a bluffing effect drawn on the wax itself!
We see very well the crushing of the silk paper on the albuminous layer.
( in press?) Always on the left a view over-contrasted and over-colored to appreciate this work of ants true artists!
You noticed the candlestick on the fireplace.
He is also entitled to his piercing...
Maker: André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: daguerreotype - stereo
Size: 3 3/8 in x 6 7/8 in
Location: France
Object No. 2024.087
Shelf: B-2
Publication:
Other Collections:
Provenance: Michael Lehr
Rank: 1361
Notes: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819 - 1889) a self-taught daguerreotypist, researched and improved upon the existing collodion-on-glass negative process, which he outlined in his first publication, Manuel Opératoire de Photographie sur Collodion Instantané, 1853. That same year, he returned to Paris and opened the largest studio in Paris, which spread across two floors. It was there that he introduced his carte-de-visite portraits which were a great financial success. For the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle, he formed the Société du Palais de l'Industrie and obtained the rights to photograph all the products and works of art exhibited at the Exposition. Eder writes "Disdéri was considered the outstanding portrait photographer of his time in Paris. Napoleon III appointed him court photographer. In 1861, he instructed French officers in photography under orders from the minister of war. Disdéri's popularity is best shown by the fact that his character was introduced in 1861 as a star attraction on the stage of a small vaudeville theater in Paris by a realistic representation featuring his bald head and tremendous beard."
(Source: Andrew. Cahan)
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Bain News Service,, publisher.
Pegoud
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows French aviator Adolphe Pegoud (1889-1915). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.14327
Call Number: LC-B2- 2834-8
Commons LSE Library The Crawlers
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From 'Street Life in London', 1877, by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith:
“But old age, and want of proper food and rest, reduces them to a lethargic condition which can scarcely be preferable to death itself. It will be noticed that they are constantly dozing, and yet are never really asleep. Some of them are unable to lie down for days. They sit on the hard stone step of the workhouse, their heads reclining on the door, and here by old custom they are left undisturbed. Indeed, the policeman of this beat displays, I am told, much commiseration for these poor refugees, and in no way molests them. When it rains, the door offers a little shelter if the wind is in a favourable direction, but as a rule the women are soon drenched, and consequently experience all the tortures of ague and rheumatism in addition to their other ailments. Under such circumstances sound sleep is an unknown luxury, hence that drowsiness from which they are never thoroughly exempt. This peculiarity has earned them the nick-name of" dosses," derived from the verb to doze, by which they are sometimes recognized. The crawlers may truly be described as persons who sleep •with one eye open.”
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France - Gironde
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-"The Human Comedy" 1893 (or La Comédie Humaine) by Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
- "Prout's Reliques" (or The Reliques of Father Prout) 1868 by Father Prout (aka Francis Sylvester Mahony (1804-1866) )
-two volumes of the Danish translation of "Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire" 1847 by Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877)
-"Reveries of a Bachelor" 1872 by Donald Grant Mitchell (aka IK Marvel) (1822-1908)
Maker: A.A.E. Disderi (1819-1889)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen print from wet plate collodion negative
Size: 2 1/4 in x 4 in
Location: France
Object No. 2022.475
Shelf: B-2
Publication:
Other Collections:
Provenance: faustinosdad
Rank: 57
Notes: Alexandre Florian Joseph, Count Colonna-Walewski (4 May 1810 – 27 September 1868), was a Polish and French politician and diplomat. Walewski was widely rumoured to be the (unacknowledged) illegitimate son of Napoleon I by his mistress, Countess Marie Walewska, although her husband (Athanasius, Count Walewski) legally acknowledged him as his own son. In 2013, published scholarship comparing DNA haplotype evidence taken from Emperor Napoleon, from his brother King Jérôme Bonaparte's descendant Charles, Prince Napoléon and from Colonna-Walewski's descendant indicated Alexandre's membership in the genetic male-line of the imperial House of Bonaparte.
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Adolphe Hedwige Alphonse Delamare (1793-1861) - Muralla del Seminari a Barcelona
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Super-Mystery Comics / Heft-Reihe
> The Black Spider
Script: ?
art: Adolphe Barreaux
Ace Magazines / USA 1942
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg
Luxembourg, officially named the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembourg City, is one of the four institutional seats of the European Union and hosts several EU institutions, notably the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority in the EU.
As part of the Low Countries, Luxembourg has close historic, political, and cultural ties to Belgium and the Netherlands. Luxembourg's culture, people, and languages are greatly influenced by France and Germany: Luxembourgish, a Germanic language, is the only recognized national language of the Luxembourgish people and of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; French is the sole language for legislation; and both languages along with German are used for administrative matters.
With an area of 2,586 square kilometres (998 sq mi), Luxembourg is Europe's seventh-smallest country. In 2024, it had a population of 672,050, which makes it one of the least-populated countries in Europe, albeit with the highest population growth rate; foreigners account for almost half the population. Luxembourg is a representative democracy headed by a constitutional monarch, Grand Duke Henri, making it the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy.
The County of Luxembourg was established in the 11th century as a state within the Holy Roman Empire. Its ascension culminated in its monarch, Henry VII, becoming the Holy Roman Emperor in the 14th century. Luxembourg came under Habsburg rule in the 15th century, and was annexed by France in the 18th century. Luxembourg was partitioned three times, reducing its size. Having been restored in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon, it regained independence in 1867 after the Luxembourg Crisis.
Luxembourg is a developed country with an advanced economy and one of the world's highest PPP-adjusted GDPs per capita, per the IMF and World Bank. It also ranks highly in terms of life expectancy, human development, and human rights. The historic city of Luxembourg was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 due to the exceptional preservation of its vast fortifications and historic quarters. Luxembourg is a founding member of the European Union, OECD, the United Nations, NATO, and the Benelux. It served on the United Nations Security Council for the first time in 2013 and 2014.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_City
Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerg; French: Luxembourg; German: Luxemburg), also known as Luxembourg City (Luxembourgish: Stad Lëtzebuerg or d'Stad; French: Ville de Luxembourg; German: Stadt Luxemburg or Luxemburg-Stadt), is the capital city of Luxembourg and the country's most populous commune. Standing at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers in southern Luxembourg, the city lies at the heart of Western Europe, situated 213 km (132 mi) by road from Brussels and 209 km (130 mi) from Cologne. The city contains Luxembourg Castle, established by the Franks in the Early Middle Ages, around which a settlement developed.
As of 31 December 2024, Luxembourg City has a population of 136,208 inhabitants, which is more than three times the population of the country's second most populous commune (Esch-sur-Alzette). The population consists of 160 nationalities. Foreigners represent 70.4% of the city's population, whilst Luxembourgers represent 29.6% of the population; the number of foreign-born residents in the city rises steadily each year.
In 2024, Luxembourg was ranked by the IMF as having the highest GDP per capita in the world at $140,310 (PPP), with the city having developed into a banking and administrative centre. In the 2019 Mercer worldwide survey of 231 cities, Luxembourg was placed first for personal safety, while it was ranked 18th for quality of living.
Luxembourg is one of the de facto capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Frankfurt and Strasbourg), as it is the seat of several institutions, agencies and bodies, including the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Auditors, the Secretariat of the European Parliament, the European Public Prosecutor's Office, the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund, the European Stability Mechanism, Eurostat, as well as other European Commission departments and services. The Council of the European Union meets in the city for three months annually.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(Luxembourg) "لوكسمبورج" "卢森堡" "Luxemburg" "לוקסמבורג" "लक्ज़म्बर्ग" "ルクセンブルク" "룩셈부르크" "Люксембург" "Luxemburgo"
(Luxembourg City) "مدينة لوكسمبورغ" "卢森堡市" "Luxembourg-Ville" "Luxemburg-Stadt" "לוקסמבורג סיטי" "लक्ज़मबर्ग शहर" "ルクセンブルク市" "룩셈부르크 시티" "Люксембург" "Ciudad de Luxemburgo"
Seen in Paris June 2016
Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in Paris, France. The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia.
Address: 82 Boulevard de Clichy, 75018 Paris, France
Opened: October 6, 1889
Capacity: 850
Architects: Adolphe Willette, Édouard Niermans
The Royal Ballet: Giselle 2021 (Osipova & Clarke)
The most famous ballet of the Romantic era and a significant work in The Royal Ballet’s repertory: Peter Wright’s hallmark production of Giselle returns to the Royal Opera House 4 Nov - 3 Dec 2021 with a special digital stream on 3 Dec and on demand for 30 days.
Company: The Royal Ballet
Choreography: Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli
Music: Adolphe Adam Edited by Lars Payne
Scenario: Théophile Gautier after Heinrich Heine
Production: Peter Wright
Additional choreography: Peter Wright
Designer: John Macfarlane
Original lighting: Jennifer Tipton
Lighting re-created by David Finn
Cast
Giselle: Natalia Osipova
Albrecht: Reece Clarke
Queen of the Willis: Mayara Magri
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By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Place Rogier Plein 27/03/2018 20h37
In between the shopping street Rue Neuve (Nieuwstraat) and the station Bruxelles Nord (Brussel Noord) there is this totally redesigned square with a huge canopy in which a Starbucks is located. Taken on a wet evening in March 2018.
Place Rogier
The (Karel) Rogierplein (French: Place (Charles) Rogier) is a square in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Joost-ten-Node. The square is located at the Kleine Ring of the Belgian capital and forms the intersection of the Kruidtuinlaan, the Nieuwstraat, the Brabantstraat, the Adolphe Maxlaan and the Vooruitgangsstraat. The square named after Charles Rogier is located on the transition between the historic city center (the Pentagon) and the office space Noordruimte, an exponent of modern Brussels.
The main part of the square was re-constructed in 2013-2015, with some accesses to the metro station being cut open and renewed. Above the station is a large parasol-shaped translucent canopy. The construction weighs 200 tons and has a diameter of 64 meters.
[ Wikipedia - May 2018 ]
Adolphe Cossard (1870-1952) - Musique Profane & Musique Sacrée (c.1900)
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This painting is a companion piece to the artist's Sunset. Both Cezanne and van Gogh were admirers of Monticelli's use of thickly applied paint or impasto, and the directional brushstrokes in his later work. The sun can be seen rising in the centre of the picture. This landscape was probably painted in the last year of the artist's life.
[Oil on wood, 27.9 x 41.3 cm]
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Maker: Adolphe Braun (1812-1877)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: collotype
Size: 6" x 7.5"
Location:
Object No. 2013.488
Shelf: K-2
Publication: Braun & Cie - Un Siecle de Technique, 1948, pg 8
Ulrich Pohlmann and Paul Mellenthin, Adolphe Braun, Schirmer/Mosel, 2017, pg 15
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...et qui doit être redressé dans la bonne direction, pour éviter qu'il se déverse complètement ! Donc...vous l'avez deviné...la flèche indique le sens où il faut pousser (ou tirer) pour remettre le lac au niveau ! Alors, j'attends de vos nouvelles pour m'aider dans cette tâche...mais on a du temps devant nous car il ne dégèlera pas avant le mois de mars ! [youtu.be/MyvbCxMsusw]
Maker: André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen print
Size: 5 7/8 x 4 1/2 x 1 in
Location: France
Object No. 2015.784f
Shelf: J-12
Publication:
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Notes: contained in Galerie des Contemporains, Vol. 12. According to McCauley Galerie des contemporains could either be purchased in volumes of 25 biographies or assembled by subscribers. Disdéri reached an agreement with the editor Zacharias Dollingen in which Dollingen hired journalists to provide the biographical notices which would accompany Disdéri's photographs.
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Maker: Philip Adolphe Klier
Born: Germany
Active: Burma
Medium: albumen print
Size: 8 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in
Location: Burma
Object No. 2016.434
Shelf: A-22
Publication:
Other Collections:
Notes: TBAL
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French postcard. Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris. Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. 22nd. tableau. L'Inauguration du nouveau club des excentriques. Play by Adolphe and D'Ennery and Jules Verne, after Verne's eponymous novel, written in 1873-1874, and first performed 7 November 1874 at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin in Paris. Despite the enormous investments, even a real elephant was involved, the play was a giant success. People were queuing around the block to see how one could travel the whole world in eighty days, and in the case of the play, within the time span of just a few hours. From 1874 to the start of WWII, the play was constantly restaged and with great success. The version of this card must date from the early 1900s, while he first staging at the Châtelet dates of 1887, where it remained a crowd-puller for years.
Maker: André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen print
Size: 5 7/8 x 4 1/2
Location: France
Object No. 2015.784b
Shelf: J-12
Publication:
Other Collections:
Notes: contained in Galerie des Contemporains, Vol. 12. According to McCauley Galerie des contemporains could either be purchased in volumes of 25 biographies or assembled by subscribers. Disdéri reached an agreement with the editor Zacharias Dollingen in which Dollingen hired journalists to provide the biographical notices which would accompany Disdéri's photographs.
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French postcard, 1920s. Editions Filma, No. 121. Photo Aubert.
Edmond Jean Adolphe Minckwitz, known as Edmond van Daële and simply Van Daele, born on 11 August 1884 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died on 12 March 1960 in Grez-Neuville (Maine-et-Loire), was a French actor, best known for his part of Robespierre in Abel Gance's Napoleon.
Edmond van Daële started his career on stage in 1913 (as far as known) and began his career in the silent film era in 1915-1916. In 1916 not only did he act in a few films at Pathé Frères, but also directed his first film: La lumière du coeur, in which he starred himself. Yet, it was from 1919 onward that he had an intense career in French silent cinema, in films such as Ames siciliennes (Raoul Dauchy, 1920), Narayana (Léon Poirier, 1920) in which he had the male lead, and Fièvre (Louis Delluc, 1921) as the sailor Militis opposite Ève Francis as the inkeeper and his ex. Afterward, Van Daele was the notary in Les Roquevillard (Julien Duvivier, 1922), while in Le Chemin de l'abîme (Adrien Caillard, 1923) he played a respected industrial who falls for a young laborer's daughter. In Coeur fidèle (Jean Epstein, 1923) he played the perfid Little Paul opposite Gina Manès and Léon Mathot, while he was reunited with Delluc and Francis in L'Inondation (1924), another male lead for Van Daele.
After La Joueuse d'orgue (1924) by Charles Burguet, Van Daele played his best remembered part, the evil Robespierre in Abel Gance's mega-spectacle Napoléon (1927), opposite Alexandre Koubitzky as Danton, Albert Dieudonné as Bonaparte, and Gance himself as Saint-Just. In Sables (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1927) Van Daele played a man who abandons his family and goes into the desert with his mistress, while in Six et demi onze (Eepstein, 1927) he plays a doctor who discovers his mistress over whom his brother committed suicide. Van Daele had the lead as the anarchist leader Siria in Duvivier's L'Agonie de Jérusalem (1927), while he was the jealous rival of the protagonist in La Lueur dans les ténèbres (Maurice Charmeroy, 1928). Van Daele played Joseph Fouché opposite Marie Bell in the title role in Madame Récamier (Gaston Ravel, Tony Lekain, 1928). In 1929 he played king Louis XVI - the man beheaded on Robespierre's instigation - in the Franco-German production Cagliostro by Richard Oswald and Marcel Carné. The film focuses on the famous "Affaire du collier de la reine".
Van Ddaele easily made the passage to French sound film, acting in the first sound film Le Requin (Henri Chomette, 1930).
Among his sound films were also Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (1930) and Le Parfum de la dame en noir (1931) by Marcel L'Herbier, Le Tunnel (Curtis Bernhardt, 1933), and Maria Chapdelaine (Duvivier, 1934). All in all, Van Daele played in about fifty films until 1950.
Sources: French Wikipedia, IMDb, filmographie.fondation-jeromeseydoux-pathe.com
German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 1810/1, 1927-1928. Photo: Fanamet. Adolphe Menjou in The Sorrows of Satan (D.W. Griffith, 1926).
Suave and debonair American actor Adolphe Menjou (1890-1963) with his trademark waxy black moustache was one of Hollywood's most distinguished stars and one of America's 'Best Dressed Men'. He started as a matinée idol in the silent cinema in such classics as Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924). His sound films included Morocco (1931) with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, A Star is Born (1937), and Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) with Kirk Douglas. In 1931, he was nominated for an Oscar for The Front Page (1931).
Adolphe Jean Menjou was born in 1890 in Pittsburgh. He was the elder son of hotel manager Albert Menjou. His Irish mother, Nora Menjou-Joyce, was a distant cousin of the famous Irish author James Joyce. Menjou had a younger brother, Henri Menjou, who made an attempt to become an actor and played in three films for Paramount in the mid-1930s. Their French émigré father moved the family to Cleveland, where he operated a chain of restaurants. He disapproved of show business and sent his son to Culver Military Academy in Indiana in the hopes of dissuading him from an acting career. Later, at Cornell University, Menjou abruptly changed his major engineering to liberal arts and began auditioning for college plays. He did some vaudeville work, and from 1915 on, he appeared as an extra for such film studios as Vitagraph, Edison and Biograph. During World War I, he served as a captain with the Ambulance Corps in France. After the war he found employment off-camera as a productions manager and unit manager. After six years of struggle he finally broke into the top ranks with substantial roles in The Faith Healer (George Melford, 1921) and Through the Back Door (Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford, 1921), starring Mary Pickford. He earned a Paramount contract and played Louis XIII in The Three Musketeers (Fred Niblo, 1921), starring Douglas Fairbanks and the influential writer Raoul de Saint Hubert in Rudolph Valentino's classic The Sheik (George Melford, 1921). Menjou established his slick prototype as the urbane ladies' man and wealthy roué opposite Edna Purviance in Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923). Paramount capitalized on Menjou's playboy image by casting him as matinée leads in Broadway After Dark (Monta Bell, 1924), Sinners in Silk (Hobart Henley, 1924), The Ace of Cads (Luther Reed, 1926), A Social Celebrity (Malcolm St. Clair, 1926) and A Gentleman of Paris (Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, 1927).
The stock market crash led to the termination of Adolphe Menjou's Paramount contract and his status as a leading man. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "MGM took him on at half his Paramount salary and his fluency in such languages as French and Spanish kept him employed at the beginning. Rivalling Gary Cooper for the attentions of Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (1930) started the ball rolling for Menjou as a dressy second lead. Rarely placed in leads following this period, he managed his one and only Oscar nomination for "Best Actor" with his performance as editor Walter Burns in The Front Page (Lewis Milestone, 1931). " Other successful films include Forbidden (Frank Capra, 1932), Little Miss Marker (Alexander Hall, 1934), A Star is Born (William A. Wellman, 1937), Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937) and Golden Boy (Rouben Mamoulian, 1939). During the war, he entertained the troops overseas and worked for the radio. He played the slick and slimy lawyer Billy Flynn opposite Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart (William A. Wellman, 1942). After the war he played secondary parts in The Hucksters (Jack Conway, 1947) and State of the Union (Frank Capra, 1948). His last lead was in the crackerjack thriller The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, 1952). His role was a San Francisco homicide detective tracking down a killer who preys on women in San Francisco. For the first time in nearly two decades, he appeared without his moustache .In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in its hunt for communists in Hollywood. Menjou was a leading member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a group formed to oppose communist influence in Hollywood. His last notable film was the classic anti-war picture Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) in which he played the villainous General Broulard. After Disney's Pollyanna (David Swift, 1960), featuring Hayley Mills, he retired from acting. In 1963, he died in his home in Beverly Hills after a nine-month battle with hepatitis. He married three times. His second wife was actress and co-star Kathryn Carver. They married in 1928 and divorced in 1934. Since 1934 he was married to actress Verree Teasdale, with whom he had an adopted son, Peter. His autobiography was called 'It Took Nine Tailors' (1947).
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3259/1, 1928-1929. Photo: Paramount.
Suave and debonair American actor Adolphe Menjou (1890-1963) with his trademark waxy black moustache was one of Hollywood's most distinguished stars and one of America's 'Best Dressed Men'. He started as a matinée idol in the silent cinema in such classics as Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924). His sound films included Morocco (1931) with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, A Star is Born (1937), and Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) with Kirk Douglas. In 1931, he was nominated for an Oscar for The Front Page (1931).
Adolphe Jean Menjou was born in 1890 in Pittsburgh. He was the elder son of hotel manager Albert Menjou. His Irish mother, Nora Menjou-Joyce, was a distant cousin of the famous Irish author James Joyce. Menjou had a younger brother, Henri Menjou, who made an attempt to become an actor and played in three films for Paramount in the mid-1930s. Their French émigré father moved the family to Cleveland, where he operated a chain of restaurants. He disapproved of show business and sent his son to Culver Military Academy in Indiana in the hopes of dissuading him from an acting career. Later, at Cornell University, Menjou abruptly changed his major engineering to liberal arts and began auditioning for college plays. He did some vaudeville work, and from 1915 on, he appeared as an extra for such film studios as Vitagraph, Edison and Biograph. During World War I, he served as a captain with the Ambulance Corps in France. After the war he found employment off-camera as a productions manager and unit manager. After six years of struggle he finally broke into the top ranks with substantial roles in The Faith Healer (George Melford, 1921) and Through the Back Door (Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford, 1921), starring Mary Pickford. He earned a Paramount contract and played Louis XIII in The Three Musketeers (Fred Niblo, 1921), starring Douglas Fairbanks and the influential writer Raoul de Saint Hubert in Rudolph Valentino's classic The Sheik (George Melford, 1921). Menjou established his slick prototype as the urbane ladies' man and wealthy roué opposite Edna Purviance in Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923). Paramount capitalized on Menjou's playboy image by casting him as matinée leads in Broadway After Dark (Monta Bell, 1924), Sinners in Silk (Hobart Henley, 1924), The Ace of Cads (Luther Reed, 1926), A Social Celebrity (Malcolm St. Clair, 1926) and A Gentleman of Paris (Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, 1927).
The stock market crash led to the termination of Adolphe Menjou's Paramount contract and his status as a leading man. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "MGM took him on at half his Paramount salary and his fluency in such languages as French and Spanish kept him employed at the beginning. Rivalling Gary Cooper for the attentions of Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (1930) started the ball rolling for Menjou as a dressy second lead. Rarely placed in leads following this period, he managed his one and only Oscar nomination for "Best Actor" with his performance as editor Walter Burns in The Front Page (Lewis Milestone, 1931). " Other successful films include Forbidden (Frank Capra, 1932), Little Miss Marker (Alexander Hall, 1934), A Star is Born (William A. Wellman, 1937), Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937) and Golden Boy (Rouben Mamoulian, 1939). During the war, he entertained the troops overseas and worked for the radio. He played the slick and slimy lawyer Billy Flynn opposite Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart (William A. Wellman, 1942). After the war he played secondary parts in The Hucksters (Jack Conway, 1947) and State of the Union (Frank Capra, 1948). His last lead was in the crackerjack thriller The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, 1952). His role was a San Francisco homicide detective tracking down a killer who preys on women in San Francisco. For the first time in nearly two decades, he appeared without his moustache .In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in its hunt for communists in Hollywood. Menjou was a leading member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a group formed to oppose communist influence in Hollywood. His last notable film was the classic anti-war picture Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957) in which he played the villainous General Broulard. After Disney's Pollyanna (David Swift, 1960), featuring Hayley Mills, he retired from acting. In 1963, he died in his home in Beverly Hills after a nine-month battle with hepatitis. He married three times. His second wife was actress and co-star Kathryn Carver. They married in 1928 and divorced in 1934. Since 1934 he was married to actress Verree Teasdale, with whom he had an adopted son, Peter. His autobiography was called 'It Took Nine Tailors' (1947).
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Adolphe Léon Willette (1857-1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer. He contributed to several journals with somewhat questionable political views. However, he is mainly known as the architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret.
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work.
I was chatting about modern culture with William-Adolphe Bouguereau last week on the bus and I suggested to him that I may be able to adapt his masterpiece a little, so as it meant something to the modern day viewer. To my complete surprise he said "Go for your life mate"... So I went home and 'modernised' it a bit with some latter-day symbolism.
Cheers Bill :)
Mont Blanc du Tacul (4248 m) throws out a jagged ridge ending at the Pointe Adolphe Rey. The upper part of this ridge consists of a group of wonderful rocky pinnacles known as the Aiguilles du Diable. Two-thirds of the way along is the amazing granite tower of the Grand Capucin. Beyond the ridge is the crevassed surface of the Glacier du Geant and in the distance the Tour Ronde (3792 m) with it's head in the clouds.
Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (Saint-Omer, May 31, 1835 – May 18, 1885) was a French Academic painter who studied under Eugene Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu War, and portraits of soldiers.
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