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]

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.