Wednesday 12 November 2008

Jean-Louis - My Thanks

3 comments:

abdul666 said...

You're welcome, Steve - myself I was so happy to have access to the 'Reveries', I've been (day?)dreaming of this moment for decades.

Then I must confess to be slightly disappointed: the legionary looks like he has forgotten to put his trousers on. Reminds me of the 'lover' in shirt and socks that hides in the wall cupboard when the husband makes an untimely come back home, in the popular late 19th - early 20th C. comedies... this one had not even time to discard his vest... And the 'monk' shoes! Really 'exotic'...
Despite the number of illustrations from various angles I have difficulties to 'materialize' the crest on the helmet: two 'wings' and a (skeletal?) bird's neck?
Very Daisyesque, all in all...

Cheers,
Jean-Louis

abdul666 said...

Hi Steve,

Thanks go to Google, of course. Then, to put it bluntly I tend to prefer your interpretation of de Saxe's 'daydreamed' uniforms, a it was progressively infolding, to that of the (almost) contemporary illustrators! The 'Reveries' were posthumous and, according to some, apocryphal, so one can give himself a drgree of freedom?

The decoration of the helmet is specially intringuing, seemingly as 'mysterious' as Mickey Mouse's ears (from whatever angle you look at them, they appear as disks - yet they are NOT spherical...): seen from the side it seem to go rather backwards, yet it is not covered by the hood of the 'Turkish coat'...

Thanks to 'emilio' of SOCDAISY: the 'Reveries' are also on-line on http://gallica.bnf.fr/ (*including Tome 2*) at URL,
url2 ?
Less easy to navigate (at first contact at least) and the plates are reproduced in B&W - but, seemingly on larger format? And it appears you can download pages...

Best wishes,
Jean-Louis

tradgardmastare said...

I can't wait to see the figures...