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Friday, August 30, 2013

Turner Fighting Temeraire Painting in Elementary Series Episode The Woman

Summary: The Turner Fighting Temeraire painting becomes Irene Adler's perhaps permanently borrowed belonging in Elementary series episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

In CBS Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23), art forger Irene Adler has taken advantage of her career as an art restorer to switch her counterfeit copy of Joseph Turner's The Fighting Temeraire for the original, which she comfortably displays in her art studio: Joseph Mallard William Turner's The Fighting Temeraire (1839 oil on canvas); The National Gallery, Westminster, Central London, South East England: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Turner painting The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up advances the plot in episode 23 of season one in the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) series Elementary.

The 35.7- by 47.9-inch (90.7- by 121.6-centimeter) oil on canvas no longer belongs to Central London's National Gallery in Westminster because of Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer). The allegorical composition on the steam-powered Industrial Revolution comes into Irene's clandestine collection after she convinces gallery curators of the credible correctness of her counterfeited copy. Writers Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny depict devious dealings that demonstrate Irene's dark-hearted demeanor and disarm Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in the episode The Woman.

Perhaps the first in season one's two-episode finale emphasizes technological and temporal enemies that endanger Irene's professional expertise and that the Turner Fighting Temeraire tow epitomizes.

National Gallery visitors find the original Turner Fighting Temeraire painting, inventory number NG524, in room 34 for mid-18th- to mid-19th-century British landscapes, portraits, racehorses and seascapes.

Curators gather other Turner-bequested seascapes: Calais Pier; Margate (?), from the Sea; Rain, Steam, and Speed; The Evening Star; and The Parting of Hero and Leander. Joseph Mallord William Turner (April 23, 1775-Dec. 19, 1851) has one steamboat heading the decommissioned 98-gun ship HMS Temeraire eastward, not westward, from Sheerness to Rotherhithe. Sheerness is a present car and fresh produce import port and a previous Royal Navy dockyard, 1667-1960, on the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England.

Rotherhithe juxtaposes historic roles as departure port July 1620 for the Pilgrim ship Mayflower and as scrapyard Sept. 6, 1838, for the Battle of Trafalgar hero-ship.

Art historians know Turner as Royal Academy of Arts enrollee in 1789, exhibitor of watercolors in 1790 and of oils in 1796 and perspective professor, 1807-1828.

The National Gallery website lists the Cockney-speaking Covent Gardener of lower middle-class socioeconomic origins as "the best-loved English Romantic artist" and as "the painter of light." Biographers mention the architectural draughtsman, engraver, gallery owner-operator, painter, poet and watercolorist as among witnesses to Temeraire's tow Sept. 5-6, 1838, from Sheerness to Beatson's Wharf. John Beatson (May 2, 1802-July 26, 1858) needed £5,530 Aug. 16, 1858, for the crewless, gun-, mast-, store-dismantled Temeraire and £58 for tow team and tugs.

The Turner Fighting Temeraire painting offers one masted, white-gray ship behind just one of the Thames Steam Towing Company's 37-ton London and 32-ton Samson paddle tugs.

The Turner Fighting Temeraire painting presents a pictorial farewell to the Chatham Royal Navy Dockyard-produced 2,120-ton vessel whose crew protected the 104-gun, 2,142-ton flagship HMS Victory.

Temeraire Captain Eliab Harvey's (Dec. 5, 1758-Feb. 20, 1830) subduing the 74-gun Fougueux, 74-gun Redoutable and 112-gun Santa Ana quashed the 33-ship French and Spanish fleets. The Battle of Trafalgar's game-changer Oct. 21, 1805, remained in Baltic and Mediterranean Sea front-line service until recommissioning as prison, recruit-receiving, supply and war-guard ships, 1813-1838. Refitted and repainted for each position, the Medway Reserve's flagship spent 1836-1838 under Thomas Fortescue Kennedy (Nov. 9, 1774-May 15, 1846), Sheerness Captain-Superintendent and Trafalgar First-Lieutenant.

Perhaps director Seith Mann's episode transmits, through the Turner Fighting Temeraire painting, Irene's transformations from top-of-the-world to toppled to tucked-away tool of transient technology and time.

In CBS Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23), Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) discovers that art restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) is also an art forger, with the original of Joseph Turner's The Fighting Temeraire conspicuously displayed as a replica in her art studio: Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook July 3, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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In CBS Elementary tvseries' The Woman (season 1 episode 23), Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) discovers that art restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) is also an art forger, with the original of Joseph Turner's The Fighting Temeraire conspicuously displayed as a replica in her art studio: Elementary @ ElementaryCBS, via Facebook July 3, 2013, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/258309474294171/

For further information:

Byrnes, Andrea. 26 June 2013. "The Beatsons - The Rotherhithe Ship-Breakers Who Broke Up the Temeraire." Russiadock.Blogspot > A Rotherhithe Blog.
Available @ http://russiadock.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-beatsons-ship-breaking-family-in.html

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1661/1661-h/1661-h.htm

Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: CBS Studios, Inc., May 16, 2013.

"The Fighting Temeraire." The National Gallery > Paintings > Explore the Paintings > Artist A to Z.
Available @ https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-fighting-temeraire

Marriner, Derdriu. 7 June 2013. “Paul Gauguin Painting Tahitian Women on the Beach in Elementary's The Woman.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/06/paul-gauguin-painting-tahitian-women-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 31 May 2013. “Rubens Painting The Incredulity of St Thomas in Elementary's The Woman.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/05/rubens-painting-incredulity-of-st.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 24 May 2013. “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Painting Rousse in Elementary Episode The Woman.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/05/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec-painting.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 17 May 2013. “The Bruegel Painted Parable in the Elementary Series Episode The Woman.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-bruegel-painted-parable-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 February 2013. “Osmia Avosetta Natural History Illustrations for Elementary's Bee.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/02/osmia-avosetta-natural-history.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 February 2013. “Russian Tortoise Natural History Illustrations and Elementary's Clyde Jan. 31, 2013.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/02/russian-tortoise-natural-history.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 25 January 2013. “Costliest, World-Most Expensive Chopard Watch: 201 Carats at $25 Million.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/costliest-world-most-expensive-chopard.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 18 January 2013. “Chopard Watch Worth $25 Million on Elementary Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/chopard-watch-worth-25-million-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 January 2013. “Claude Monet Painting Nympheas 1918 in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/claude-monet-painting-nympheas-1918-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 January 2013. “Paul Cézanne Still Life Painting Fruit in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/paul-cezanne-still-life-painting-fruit.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 December 2012. “Paul Signac Painting Women at the Well in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/paul-signac-painting-women-at-well-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 December 2012. “The Van Gogh Pietà Painting in Elementary Series Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-van-gogh-pieta-painting-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 December 2012. “Edward Hopper Painting Western Motel in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/edward-hopper-painting-western-motel-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 September 2012. "Are Lesser Clovers Sherlock's Lucky Shamrocks on Elementary's Pilot?" Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/09/are-lesser-clovers-sherlocks-lucky.html

Friday, June 7, 2013

Paul Gauguin Painting Tahitian Women on the Beach in Elementary's The Woman

Summary: The Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach ends up as Irene Adler's expert copy or extracted original in Elementary episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

Tahitian Women on the Beach (Femmes de Tahiti) by French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848-May 8, 1903), Musée d'Orsay, seventh arrondissment (7e arrondissement de Paris): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach appears among allegedly reproduced or restored artwork in a London apartment in the Columbia Broadcasting System's Elementary episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

The first season's 23rd episode, as the first part of the two-part season finale, brings Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) and Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) together. Sherlock cares not at all that Irene's apartment conceals the original Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel (1525?-Sep. 9, 1569) from 1568. Irene does not demur when Sherlock decides to designate which of the displayed artwork he deems diverted originals and which deserve the designation of diligent copy.

Director Seith Mann and writers Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny end the episode without elucidating which other artworks enjoy illegally extracted original status with the Bruegel.

The framed Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach fits onto the wall behind the easel that flaunts Irene's most recent endeavors as art restorer.

Irene glimpses the duo from Noa Noa ("Scented Island," Tahiti) as she goes over the middle panel, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, to the Rockox Triptych. The Bruegel parable hangs on the wall left of Gauguin's (June 7, 1848-May 8, 1903) painting and Peter Paul Rubens' (June 28, 1577-May 30, 1640) Triptych. The Gauguin is opposite, with the Rubens about half the distance between, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's (Nov. 24, 1864-Sep, 9, 1901) Rousse inclined against Irene's spiral staircase.

In the world of facts and fiction outside television series, the Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach joins 19th-century French artworks in Paris, France.

The Orsay Museum (le Musée d'Orsay), not Irene, keeps the 27.16- by 36.02-inch (69- by 91.5-centimeter) oil on canvas by the ceramics-creating, sculpting, wood-carving Paris-born painter.

The beachscape from the first months after Eugène-Henri Paul Gauguin's landing in Papeete June 9, 1891, links white-capped black waters, yellow-orange sands and yellow-rimmed green lands. The Tahitian on the left maintains a somnolent, submissive posture in a red skirt whose white flowers match her tank top and flower behind her ear. A yellow ribbon nestles around her black, loose-drawn, shining, waist-length ponytail even though a pink ribbon nabs all of her fellow beach-sitter's dull-bodied, middle-parted, tight-drawn hair.

French colonialism obscures the pink-ribboned beachcomber in an ankle-length, high-necked, long-sleeved, loose-skirted pink dress from which her colonially oppressed lotus posture offers a bare right foot.

Professions as ship's boy, second-lieutenant, seaman, banker, stock exchange dealer, sailcloth salesman, bill-poster, Impressionist and synthetic Symbolist preceded Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach.

Maternal art collections, maternal grandparents' residence in Lima, Peru, Colarossi Academy painting lessons and travels to Brazil, Brittany, Denmark, Martinique and Panama queued up as career-changing. He renounced wife Mette Gad (Sep. 7, 1850-Sep. 25, 1920) and their five children to romance Anna the Javanese and son Émile's mother, Pau'ura the Tahitian. He succumbed to heart disease before his three-month sentence and 1,000-franc fine for libel and tax evasion in Atuana, Marquesas, where Hueakihi's Catholic cemetery shelters his sepulture.

Perhaps Paul Gauguin painting Tahitian Women on the Beach tells Irene not to trivialize those unlike her, such as Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and Tahitian traditionalists.

Art forger and restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) charms Sherlock Holmes (Natalie Dormer) to distract him from her studio art collection that includes Paul Gauguin's Tahitian Women on the Beach, unspecified as diverted original or perfect copy: jedigirlsc @jedigirlsc, via Twitter April 17, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Tahitian Women on the Beach (Femmes de Tahiti) by French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848-May 8, 1903) hangs in art forger and restorer Irene Adler's (Natalie Dormer) studio but is not identified as a stolen original or a perfect copy in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23); in real life the 1891 oil on canvas safely hangs in Musée d'Orsay, on the Seine's left bank (Rive Gauche), in Paris' aristocratic seventh arrondissment (7e arrondissement de Paris): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin_056.jpg

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newsnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661?msg=welcome_stranger

jedigirlsc ‏@jedigirlsc. 17 April 2013. "THE WOMAN RT @ETonlineAlert: #Elementary Sneak Peek: Irene Adler plants a kiss on Sherlock." Twitter.
Available @ https://twitter.com/jedigirlsc/status/324650994698956801

"The Woman / Heroine." Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: CBS Studios, Inc., May 16, 2013.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Rubens Painting The Incredulity of St Thomas in Elementary's The Woman

Summary: The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of St. Thomas may be Irene Adler's only legal original in Elementary series episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Ruben painted The Incredulity of Saint Thomas triptych (ca. 1613-1615) by Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577-May 30, 1640), Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Netherlands: Web Gallery of Art, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas perhaps alone avows Irene Adler's abilities as restorer in The Woman episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System series Elementary May 16, 2013.

Director Seith Mann and writers Paul Doherty and Craig Sweeny bring the Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas to Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer). Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) consults Irene at her apartment about forged or original Joseph Turner (April 23, 1775-Dec. 19, 1851) sketches for The Fighting Temeraire. Irene dismisses the sketches as "They're good forgeries but, you know, they're forgeries" just before Sherlock deems her paintings either "counts of felonious theft" or reproductions.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas emerges as possibly sole legitimate restoration since Irene and Sherlock never elucidate the other artworks' provenances.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas faces the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse that fills space in front of Irene's winding staircase.

The 143- by 123-centimeter (56.2- by 48.42-inch) oil on canvas gazes upon the Pieter Bruegel painted parable The Blind Leading the Blind and the Turner Temeraire. Sherlock honors the Bruegel as the original while Irene hints that "The world would be a more interesting place with a few new Turners in it." In the everyday world outside imaginative and realistic television series the Flemish Baroque masterpiece inhabits Siegen 1577 in Antwerp, Brussels, not Irene's apartment in London, England.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas juggles the nickname Rockox Altarpiece and Rockox Triptych for commissioning patron, intended destination and three-panel construction.

The Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas from 1615-1615 knew the Lady Chapel in the Recollects Church as its original destination in 1619.

Rubens (June 28, 1577-May 30, 1640) linked a panel with his patron's likeness and another with his patron's wife's to either side of the main panel. Curators nowadays maintain the Rockox Triptych among 14th- to 20th-century artworks in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen). Only the main panel with Thomas (died July 3, 72), Peter (died 64-67?) and Paul (died 64-67?) noting the red-garbed Jesus' wounds needed Irene's restorative talents.

Sherlock never occupies himself with the omitted couple even though Nicolaas II Rockox (Dec. 14, 1560-Dec. 12, 1640) and Adriana Perez (1568-1619) operated among Antwerp's elite.

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts online catalogue entry for Inventory number 307-311 presents the side-paneled couple as posed in sober black attire for devout faith.

Rubens queued up pearls and a rosary for Antwerp's devoutest, wealthiest Spaniard and fur, gilded buckle and right hand over the heart for her husband's philanthropy. He relayed the rich couple's reliance upon God's grace as revealed through Jesus's forgiving Peter's denying their friendship, Thomas's doubting the resurrection and Paul's persecuting Christians.

Perhaps the Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of St. Thomas shows up on Elementary's first-season finale for wounds that Sherlock should and should not suspect. No wounds from the non-existent Stapleton traumatize Irene, whose removed mole terminates her back's Auriga-like configuration of beauty marks and tells on her as Jamie Moriarty.

Is Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) restoring only the main panel of Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens' The Incredulity of Saint Thomas triptych (ca. 1613-1615 oil on canvas), or is the solitary panel an exemplar of her forging excellence in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23)?: Ari Permadi @aripermantap, via Twitter May 17, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Ruben painted The Incredulity of Saint Thomas as a triptych (ca. 1613-1615), but only the main panel displays on Irene Adler's (Natalie Dormer) easel when Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) makes her acquaintance during a visit to her studio in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23); in real life, the Netherlands's Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp shelters Ruben's triptych.: Web Gallery of Art, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_The_Incredulity_of_St_Thomas_-_WGA20193.jpg

Ari Permadi ‏@aripermantap. 17 May 2013. "Margaery Tyrell is Irene Adler. #Elementary." Twitter.
Available @ https://twitter.com/aripermantap/status/335306678604009472

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newnes Ltd., 1892.

Frèches, Claire and José. 1991. "Toulouse-Lautrec: Scenes of the Night." Translated from the French by Alexandra Campbell. Discoveries Series. New York NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

"Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Rousse." Musée d'Orsay > English > Collections > Works in Focus > Commentaire.
Available @ http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire/commentaire_id/rousse-8858.html?no_cache=1

Kinsman, Jane. 2009. "Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne & Beyond." National Gallery of Australia > Explore > Collections > European + American Art > Overview > Related Exhibitions.
Available @ https://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/MASTERPIECESfromPARIS/Default.cfm?IRN=191263&BioArtistIRN=16815&MnuID=SRCH&ArtistIRN=16815&ViewID=2

"The Woman." Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, May 16, 2013.

Friday, May 24, 2013

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Painting Rousse in Elementary Episode The Woman

Summary: Irene Adler keeps the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse as reproduction or restoration in the Elementary Series Episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

Rousse (1889 oil on cardboard) by French post-Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (November 24, 1864-September 9, 1901), Musée d'Orsay, seventh arrondissement (7e arrondissement de Paris): Olivier Duquesne (DaffyDake), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

The Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse appears diagonally from the Bruegel painted parable The Blind Leading the Blind in The Woman episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System series Elementary May 16, 2013.

That the Pieter Bruegel painted parable The Blind Leading the Blind bears the gouges from "shelling during the Great War" baffles Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller). Sherlock considers, "Hard to see you, a restorer by trade, would recreate the gouges" from World War I (July 28, 1914-Nov. 11, 1918) "in the canvas."

Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) deems diversion a decorous part of valor and declares," The museum director wanted to file down the paint where the gouges were." She explains to Sherlock, "I told him that that would compromise what the artist intended, but he didn't see it my way, so I preserved it."

Sherlock fathoms that "other paintings are preserved as well" and formulates that "I appreciate your efforts to keep the vulgarities of the modern era at bay."

Sherlock's gauging that "I'll tell you which of the paintings are reproductions and which of them are counts of felonious theft" gives no answers to viewers. The fact that Irene handles its "very very particular palette" hints of the Peter Paul Rubens painting The Incredulity of Saint Thomas as restoration, not reproduction. It indicates nothing about the 67- by 54-centimeter (26.38- by 21.26-inch) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse from 1889 as original oil on cardboard, reproduction or restoration.

In the brick-and-mortar world outside the facts and fiction on television series the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse joins other original art in the Musée d'Orsay.

The Paris museum on the left bank of the Seine River keeps an online catalogue entry for Rousse dit aussi La Toilette ("Redhead also called Toilet").

Wicker chairs let the entry locate the bare-backed redhead lingering over clean-up, coiffure, dress and make-up rituals at her painter's wooden floor-boarded studio at 27 rue Caulaincourt. The Masterpieces from Paris exhibition book Dec. 4, 2009-April 18, 2010, at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra mentions Carmen Gaudin (1866?-1920) as the model. Claire and José Frèches, curators and Toulouse-Lautrec historians, noted Gaudin's careers as "extremely punctual" model, Mirliton cabaret singer Rosa la Rouge and "quiet, sickly, working-class girl."

National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman offers the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse as occurring at 7 rue Tourlaque because of a photo from 1889-1890.

The Musée d'Orsay entry posits a 1889 painting date, from a Rousse painting at Les XX ("The Twenty") exhibition Jan. 18-Feb. 23, 1890, in Brussels, Belgium. Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890) queued up his only known sale, The Red Vineyard to Anna Boch (Feb. 10, 1848-Feb. 25, 1936), there.

Toulouse-Lautrec (Nov. 24, 1864-Sep. 9, 1901) realized a 57- by 46-centimeter (22.44- by 18.11-inch) colored chalk on cardboard portrait of van Gogh in Paris in 1887. Sherlock suffers the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse in Irene's studio whereas, in The Leviathan, he saves the stolen van Gogh Pietà from Peter Kent's stash.

Perhaps Carmen's back tells whether Irene tethers the reproduced or restored Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting Rousse, just as Irene's tracks her Moriarty persona in The Heroine.

After reuniting with Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) at the end of Risk Management (season 1 episode 22), Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) flashbacks, in The Woman (season 1, episode 23), to their first meeting, at Irene's studio adorned with art originals, including Toulouse-Lautrec's Rousse, and forgeries: Irene, still painting during her alleged captivity, at the end of Risk Management: Marco G. @marcogangini, via Twitter May 14, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

French post-Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Rousse (1889 oil on cardboard) numbers among fictitiously stolen art work that Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) notes in Irene Adler's (Natalie Dormer) studio in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1 episode 23); in real life, Musée d'Orsay in Paris's 7e arrondissement de Paris (7th arrondissement, Paris, France) claims ownership of Toulouse-Lautrec's Rousse: Olivier Duquesne (DaffyDake), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/daffyduke/3402893626/

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newnes Ltd., 1892.

Frèches, Claire and José. 1991. "Toulouse-Lautrec: Scenes of the Night." Translated from the French by Alexandra Campbell. Discoveries Series. New York NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Marco G. ‏@marcogangini. 14 May 2013. "Irene Adler! . . . .#Elementary." Twitter.
Available @ https://twitter.com/marcogangini/status/334288651506819073

"Vincent van Gogh: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Paris, 1887." Van Gogh Museum > English > Collection > Search the Collection.
Available @ https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/d0693V1962

"The Woman." Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, May 16, 2013.

Friday, May 17, 2013

The Bruegel Painted Parable in the Elementary Series Episode The Woman

Summary: The Bruegel painted parable The Blind Leading the Blind fictitiously belongs to Irene Adler in the Elementary series episode The Woman May 16, 2013.

The Parable of the Blind (1568 distemper on linen canvas) by Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-1530-Sept. 9, 1569); Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Southern Italy; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Pieter Bruegel painting The Parable of the Blind appears May 16, 2013, in episode 23, directed by Seith Mann, in the first season of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) series Elementary.

The 33.875- by 60.625-inch (86.0425- by 153.9875-centimeter) tempera on canvas from 1568 becomes the fictitiously restored belonging of Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) in The Woman episode. Irene catches Sherlock Holmes' (Jonny Lee Miller's) curiosity by claiming the consummately restored original clandestinely for herself and the cleverly counterfeited copy for the museum collection. The brown-gray-mauve glue-bound painting depicts the parable of St. Matthew XV verse 14 that "If the Blind lead the Blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Episode writers Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny perhaps entertain the Bruegel painted parable as foreshadowed evidence of Irene's exile as Jamie Moriarty and Sherlock's for addictions.

Away from sometimes fabricated, sometimes non-fabricated serial plots, the Bruegel painted parable of the blind flourishes at the Museo di Capodimonte (Top-of-the-Hill Museum) in Naples, Italy.

The tragic glimpse gives the blind leader already gone face-up into the stream, the second about to go face-down and the last four going gingerly forward. The blind beggar amid The Fight between Carnival and Lent of 1559 heralds the Bruegel painted parable's physical and spiritual blindness, despite the fourth man's cross. The second, third, fourth and sixth men illustrate the respective blindness of empty, eyeball-less sockets, fixated non-seeing eyes, inflicted or inherited non-seeing squints and sewed-together eyelids.

Perhaps Irene judged as juggle-worthy the thin-colored Bruegel painted parable with cowering cow, lone lily, sparse grasses and trees and peripheral church, three buildings and town.

An earlier depiction of the blind leading the blind by figure and landscape painter Pieter Bruegel is found in the background in Netherlandish Proverbs (1559 oil-on-panel): Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden) with inset detail of three blind figures, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Art collectors, connoisseurs and historians know Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1530?-Sept. 9, 1569) as figure and landscape illustrator and genre and landscape oil and tempera painter.

Specialists list the Bruegel legacy as figure and landscape drawings for engravings in Antwerp, miniatures and watercolors in Italy and genre and landscape paintings in Brussels. They mention as respective fine linen watercoloring, Mannerist panting and miniature painting mentors Claude Dorizi and Mayken Verhulst Bessemer, Pieter Coeck van Alst and Giulio Clovio. They note as early-drawn landscapes, miniatures and figures Landscape with Walled Town and Tower of Babel in 1553 and Big Fish Eat Little Fish in 1556.

Death of the Virgin and the Mannerist Adoration of the Kings in 1564 and Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery in 1565 offer early-painted figures.

Bruegel drawings and paintings present, until the last years, powerful built and natural settings prevailing over pint-sized people, as in The Triumph of Death in 1562.

Only the gray-monochromed Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery and Death of the Virgin, the thin-colored painted parable and the watercolor-like Misanthrope qualify as non-vivid. Even The Hunters in the Snow, Massacre of the Innocents, Numbering at Bethlehem and Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird-Trap in 1565-1566 reek of colors. Carol van Mander's Schilder-boeck in 1604 said, "He (Bruegel) liked to frighten people, often even his own pupils, with all kinds of spooks and uncanny noises."

Perhaps the Bruegel painted parable told Irene, not der Mander's take, or Sherlock's on her dark heart, but tumultuous truths of thoughtful teamwork and trustworthy tips.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) flashes back to meeting art forger and restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) in her studio, where he discovers her collection of original art, including Pieter Bruegel's Parable of the Blind, in Elementary tv series' The Woman (season 1, episode 23): CBS Elementary episode 1.23 promotional photo, via SpoilerTV May 11, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

In CBS series Elementary episode The Woman, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) discovers that art restorer Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) has skillfully switched her copy of The Parable of the Blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder for the original: Pieter Bruegel's The Parable of the Blind (1568 distemper on linen canvas); Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Southern Italy; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_(1568)_The_Blind_Leading_the_Blind.jpg

An earlier depiction of the blind leading the blind by figure and landscape painter Pieter Bruegel is found in the background in Netherlandish Proverbs (1559 oil-on-panel); Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, northeastern Germany: Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden) with inset detail of three blind figures, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_Netherlandish_Proverbs_-_detail_of_blind_men.jpg

The Description of the Low Countreys and of the Provinces Thereof, Gathered into an Epitome out of the Historie of Lodovico Guicchardini. Imprinted at London by Peter Short for Thomas Chard, 1593.
Available @ http://www.historyofholland.com/guicciardini-book-page-1-i.html

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1661/1661-h/1661-h.htm

Elementary @ElementaryCBS. 14 May 2013. "Sherlock's love returns from the dead and his enemy returns from the shadows. Don't miss the two-hour season finale, Thursday 9/8c. LIKE if you'll be watching!" Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/245733255551793/

Kay, Marguerite. 1969. Bruegel. London England; New York NY: Paul Hamlyn.

Van Mander, Carel. Het schilder-boeck: waerin voor eerst de leerlustighe jueght den grondt der edel vry schilderconst in verscheyden deelen wort voorghedraghen: daer nacindry deelen t'leuen der vermaerde door suchtighe schilers des ouden, en nieuwen tyds. P. van Wesbusch, 1604.
Available via Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren @ http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/mand001schi01_01/mand001schi01_01_0221.php

"The Woman." Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, May 16, 2013.