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… au reste, après nous, le Déluge

26 Tuesday Feb 2019

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Enlightenment, France, French songs

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Artist, Chief mistress, Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour, Patroness of the Arts, The Enlightenment

Marquise de Pompadour by François Boucher, 1756, Neue Pinakothek (Wiki2.org.)

After France lost the Battle of Rossbach (1757), during the Seven Years’ War, and would lose New France, Madame de Pompadour, the chief mistress of Louis XV, said: “au reste, après nous, le Déluge” (“Besides, after us, the Deluge”).

For France, it was the beginning of the Deluge. After the Seven Years’ War, it was on the brink of bankruptcy, which, as we have seen, led to the meeting of the Estates General. It opened on 5 May 1789, but the French Revolution began two months later, on 14 July 1789, the day the Bastille was stormed.

For the people of New France, it was also the Deluge. New France (see map) was very large, but it had few inhabitants, about 70,000. These were the descendants of 26,000 colonists, but its population would grow.

The current population of Quebec is 8,455,402, 81% of whom are French-speaking. Many immigrants to Quebec are French-speaking North Africans: Blacks and Whites. Several are Algerians and, a large number, Muslims. (See The Population of Quebec, World Population Review.com.)

Madame de Pompadour

Madame de Pompadour was born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764) and she was the royal mistress from 1745 to 1751, or from the age of 24 to the age of 30. She had to retire from her role as chief mistress because of health problems. However, she remained Louis XV’s friend and mistress of his heart. She was very influential at court. On 8 February 1756, she was named lady-in-waiting to Marie Leszczyńska, Louis XVI‘s mother.

The marquise was a patroness of the arts and a student of François Boucher. He taught her how to make engravings. She also learned to engrave semi-precious stones, such as onyx. The images shown below are by François Boucher and Pompadour, after gemstone engraver Jacques Guay. (Wiki2.org.) In 1759, our marquise bought a porcelain factory, at Sèvres. (See Madame de Pompadour, Wiki2.org.)

Génie de la Musique by Boucher, Pompadour, Guay (Wiki2.org.)
Génie de la Musique by Boucher, Pompadour, Guay (Wiki2.org.)
L'Amour by Boucher, Pompadour, Guay 1755 (Wiki2.org)
L’Amour by Boucher, Pompadour, Guay 1755 (Wiki2.org)


Les Lumières

Not only was the Marquise a patroness of the arts, but she was also a friend of the physiocrates and philosophes of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, no less, as well as its encyclopédistes: Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d’Alembert …

When Madame de Pompadour died of tuberculosis at the age of 42, Voltaire wrote:

“I am very sad at the death of Madame de Pompadour. I was indebted to her and I mourn her out of gratitude. It seems absurd that while an ancient pen-pusher, hardly able to walk, should still be alive, a beautiful woman, in the midst of a splendid career, should die at the age of forty-two.”
(See Madame de Pompadour, Wiki2.org.)

“… après nous, le Déluge.”

Love to everyone 💕

 Les Tendres Souhaits — Le Poème harmonique
Claire Lefilliâtre, soprano
Vincent Dumestre, lutenist and founder of the ensemble Le Poème harmonique

Head of a Woman from Behind by François Boucher (WikiArt.org)

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Edmond Geffroy’s Molière

11 Wednesday May 2016

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Comedy, Molière

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Actor, Amaury-Duval, Artist, Comédie-, Comédie-Française, Edmond Geffroy, Molière, Vigny's Chatterton

 

Monsieur Loyal, Tartuffe by Edmond Geffroy

Monsieur Loyal, Le Tartuffe by Edmond Geffroy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Allow me a short post.

Edmond Geffroy‘s FR was an actor and a sociétaire, one of the shareholders, of the Comédie-Française. But he was also an artist and the painting above is a watercolour portrait of an actor who played the role of Monsieur Loyal, the bailiff in Molière’s Tartuffe. I believe it has been auctioned off by Drouot.com, in Paris.

If we look at other paintings of Molière’s characters, a few appear to be by Edmond Geoffroy. They are signed, but the signature is difficult to read. However, the ‘G’ in the portrait of Monsieur Loyal resembles the ‘G’ of other portraits of Molière’s characters: the portrait of Tartuffe‘s (1664), that of Alceste, the protagonist in Molière’s The Misanthrope (1666), Monsieur Jourdain, the Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670), and other characters inhabiting Molière’s theatrical world.

Alceste, Le Misanthrope
Alceste, Le Misanthrope
Scapin, Maurice Sand or Geoffroy
Scapin, Maurice Sand or Geoffroy
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Monsieur Jourdain, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Monsieur Jourdain, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme


About Edmond Geffroy 

Edmond Geffroy (1804 – 1895) entered his career at the Comédie-Française in 1829. He married Eulalie Dupuis, whose mother, Rose Dupuis, was a sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, or a shareholder.

Geoffroy was a successful actor who was named the 254th shareholder of the Comédie-Française in 1835. He was Dean of the shareholders between 1862 and 1865. He retired as sociétaire in 1865. Edmond Geffroy created the role of Chatterton, Alfred de Vigny‘s Romantic hero, with Marie Dorval as Kitty Bell.

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Scène de Chatterton, Lithographie de Jacques Arago  (Photo credit: Larousse)

As an artist, Geffroy apprenticed at Amaury-Duval‘s atelier. He showed paintings at the Salon de Paris from 1829 until 1863 and, in 1841, he was awarded two medals: a second-place and a third-place medal.

Some of his portraits depict groups. But between 1851 and 1863, he made portraits of his colleagues, individual actors mainly, wearing either civilian clothes or the costume they had worn performing their favourite role. Eight of his paintings hang in the foyer of the Comédie-Française.

Edmond Geffroy also executed history paintings and depictions of religious scenes.

After his death, a retrospective exhibition of is art took place in at Maignelet, his birthplace, and Beauvais. Geffroy died at Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours.

In 1995, a catalogue of his paintings was compiled by the Musée départemental de l’Oise.

I will now finish a post on Tartuffe.

RELATED ARTICLES

  • Molière’s Enigmatic Comedies (6 May 2016)
  • Molière: Farces and “Grandes Comédies” (8 May 2016)

Sources and Resources

  • Marie Dorval in Chatterton (Les Carnets d’Eimelle)
    Les carnets d’Eimelle littérature théâtre voyage: Marie Dorval …Mlecture-spectacle.blogspot.com
  • FR Wikipedia
  • Larousse (Vigny’s Chatterton)

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Edmond Geffroy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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