Joyeuse Fête de l'Etre Suprême!

[montagnarde1793]

And what's more, Buffenoir's Les Portraits de Robespierre finally came today. And you know what that means...picspam! 
Not that I think you'll be particularly annoyed, since I'm sure not all of you have seen all of these pictures. (There are seventy-two, and I mean to post them all--except the really well-known ones--eventually, but for tonight twelve will suffice, I think.)

They're not terribly great quality, I know, and I hope you'll forgive me on that point; I don't have particularly sophisticated technology....they looked good in the book!
Also: do tell me which ones you've seen already, and, of course, which ones you like and which ones you don't.

Comments

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, pretty. :D Some of those cravats look painful, though.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...Good thing they didn't call people who wore cravats like that "scrofulous" until the Thermidorian reaction.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Yes. That would have ended in a horrible disaster of some kind.

It's amusing how different they all look.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly.

Indeed it is....I wonder why...

[josiana.livejournal.com]

XD

...Bored artists?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

But just being bored doesn't make artists draw people differently, does it?

[josiana.livejournal.com]

It might, if they were bored enough to try and emphasize different aspects of his face. Or something.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

"Hmm, let's see what happens if I make his nose really big!"

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Exactly. XD And no one wanted Saint-Just to hunt them down for doing terrible portraits, so no one admitted to doing them.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

But what about the non-anonymous bad portraits?

[josiana.livejournal.com]

They were very very drunk.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

*snort* You have to be to mess with Saint-Just.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Clearly. He's scary even when he isn't being all ninja-Rose-of-Versailles!Saint-Just and running around in tacky masks.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I believe that was his trademark.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Oh dear...

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

The scariness, mind, not the masks.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

*giggles* That's probably a good thing. He might have gotten odd tan lines around his eyes if he'd worn a mask all the time.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...Not that we'd know if he had, since portrait-painters don't usually include that sort of thing.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

...That's true.

[rainofthenight.livejournal.com]

So cool! A man with many faces :D

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Or just one that people couldn't figure out how to paint...XD

[rainofthenight.livejournal.com]

Probably depending from how much they liked him :)

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

That just may have something to do with it.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

I like the one fifth from last. He looks so sweet! What a lovely smile! :)

D-M

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I rather like that one myself...

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

*grins* Maxime's such a doll!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

He is! ...That one really ought to be made into an icon.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Question: why are there so many anonymous portraits?

Possible Answer: because most of them painted badly and feared for their future reputation.

Right, I am slightly too critical and mean, but truly... it seems like Maxime had the ability to morph in front of the painters. Even for Saint-Just, if the portraits are annoyingly different, there are a few common traits, such as the nose, the visage, etc.

Anyway, answering your required comments now:

I had seen the 3rd, with the awfully tight breeches *snorts*

I must admit I absolutely dislike Greuze's. I do like the 7th one though. It seems nice. And the last, too, for the leg *snickers* but also because it's supposed to be at the Duplay home.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I think the reason the anonymous portraits are so bad is often because they're anonymous, not vice-versa; he probably didn't sit down and pose for those and the artists were probably painting/sketching from memory.

There are still a few common traits with Maxime if you look carefully enough; it's the way they're emphasized that makes a huge difference.

...Especially since that one is supposedly after David.

I don't like Greuze's much either, although it doesn't look quite as bad in the book. The seventh, I agree on: it's quite nice. As to the last, there's a better one of him at the Duplays later in the book...

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Hmph, drama queenish amateur artists, obviously. Frustrated because they couldn't get a pose.

Wait, what did David the Perv sketched again???

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

...oh, THAT ONE is by David.

*wails*

I knew there was something about it...

I have a part of it in colour, too.



This is SO being turned into an icon.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

It makes sense...

I've seen the colored one, but I had never seen it in full...

I can't wait to see the icon of that;)

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

*winks*

I believe I know why we can't get a high-resolution version of that portrait. The tightness can kill.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

That icon is awesome!

I don't doubt it!

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

*entranced* It's so incredibly tight...

Ahem. *coughs*

I also made a special Camillish icon. Sort of.

Will MSN be worthy of your presence tonight, or there are still ebil books to be read?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...You wouldn't think he would have worn culottes like that...especially not with Saint-Just around.

Awwww...it's so cute! Curse you and your icon making ability!

No books, but I have a chemistry final and an English project.
....neither of which I'm working on tonight ;)

[zigsternenstaub.livejournal.com]

I'm so reassured by the fact that almost none of these portraits resemble each other. Wonderful. One of the beautiful drawbacks of the pre-photographic era. We can never be truly sure what people really looked like.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

It is indeed quite annoying. But at least they seem to have similar features; it's just that, if they're manipulated even slightly, it completely changes the whole appearance.