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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.
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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

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

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Gill Crater Honors British Astronomer Sir David Gill

Summary: Gill Crater honors British astronomer Sir David Gill, who was a pioneer in using astrophotography to determine star brightness and positions.

Detail of southwest-facing view, obtained in 1971 by Apollo 15 mission’s Hasselblad camera, shows lunar near side’s Gill Crater system; NASA ID AS15-96-13093: James Stuby (Jstuby), Public Domain (CC0 1.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Gill Crater honors British astronomer Sir David Gill, who explored his interest in astronomical distance and stellar brightness via mastery of the heliometer and pioneering use of astrophotography.

Gill Crater is a south polar-latitude impact crater that lies near the lunar near side’s southeastern limb. Impacts have pummeled the eroded crater’s rim. Craterlets gouge the old crater’s relatively level interior floor.

Gill Crater is centered at minus 63.77 degrees south latitude, 75.95 degrees east longitude, according to the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. The southern hemisphere crater finds its northernmost and southernmost latitudes at minus 62.71 degrees south and minus 64.82 degrees south, respectively. The eastern hemisphere crater posts easternmost and westernmost longitudes of 78.33 degrees east and 73.56 degrees east, respectively. Gill Crater’s diameter measures 63.9 kilometers.

Gill Crater parents eight satellites in the south polar latitudes on the lunar near side. One satellite, Gill D, resides to the east of its parent. Seven of the Gill Crater system’s eight satellites associate with their parent’s western side.

Gill Crater lies to the southwest of Mare Australe (Southern Sea). The middle- to polar-latitude lunar mare (Latin: mare, “sea”) wraps around the lunar near side’s southeastern limb in its occupancy of far side and near side portions of the moon’s eastern and southern hemispheres.

Mare Australe is centered at minus 47.77 degrees south latitude, 91.99 degrees east longitude. The southern hemisphere lunar mare records northernmost and southernmost latitudes of minus 31.84 degrees south and minus 64.2 degrees south, respectively. The eastern hemisphere lunar mare registers easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 113.36 degrees east and 70.43 degrees east, respectively. Mare Australe has a length of 996.84 kilometers.

Gill Crater honors British astronomer Sir David Gill (June 12, 1843-Jan. 24, 1914). The International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved Gill as the crater’s official name in 1964, during the organization’s XIIth (12th) General Assembly, held in Hamburg, Germany, from Tuesday, Aug. 25, to Thursday, Sept. 3. The letter designations for the Gill Crater system’s eight satellites received approval in 2006.

Gill’s obituary in the Feb. 12, 1915, issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society acknowledged his “. . . incalculable influence . . .” on “. . . precision of observation” (page 237). In 1863, Gill’s collaboration with Scottish physicist David Thomson (Nov. 27, 1817-Jan. 31, 1880) in reviving King’s College’s Cromwell Tower Observatory inspired Gill’s interest in observational astronomy.

From 1872 to 1876, Gill directed the equipping of Dun Echt Observatory in northeastern Aberdeenshire, northeastern Scotland. The private observatory was founded by James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres (July 28, 1847-Jan. 31, 1913).

A 4-inch (10-centimeter) heliometer numbered among the fine instruments designed under Gill’s supervision for Dun Echt Observatory. Gill acquired mastery of the heliometer in preparation for Lord Crawford’s private expedition to observe the Dec. 9, 1874, transit of Venus from the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius (French: République de Maurice). Heliometers originally were designed for measurements of seasonal variations in the sun’s diameter. The accuracy of heliometers expanded their usage to the measurement of angular distances between stars and other celestial bodies.

In 1879, Gill was appointed as successor to English astronomer Edward James Stone (Feb. 28, 1831-May 6, 1897) as Her Majesty’s Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. He began his duties at the Royal Observatory on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula on May 29, 1879. Gill sailed from the Cape on Oct. 3, 1906. His formal retirement, after 27 years eight-plus months of service, took place Feb. 20, 1907.

Gill’s scrutiny of his photographs of the Great Comet of 1882 (formally designated C/1882 R1, 1882 II, 1882b) revealed to him the value of astrophotography in determining the brightness and positions of stars. Between 1885 and 1890 the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope conducted an extensive photographic survey of Southern Hemisphere stars ranged between minus 18 degrees south declination and the south celestial pole (minus 90 degrees south declination). Dutch astronomer Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (Jan. 19, 1851-June 18, 1922) analyzed Gill’s glass plate photographs with a measuring instrument of his own design known as the parallactic instrument of Kapteyn. The Gill-Kapteyn collaboration yielded the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD), a star catalog of magnitudes and positions for 454,875 southern sky stars published in three volumes from 1895 to 1900.

The takeaways for Gill Crater, which honors British astronomer Sir David Gill, are that the eroded lunar impact crater lies southwest of Mare Australe (Southern Sea) near the near side’s southeastern limb; that the south polar region crater parents eight satellites; that the crater’s namesake is credited with pioneering astrophotography as an effective resource for measuring stellar brightness and positions; and that Sir David Gill’s photographs of the Great Comet of 1882 inspired his exploration of astrophotography.

Detail of Shaded Relief and Color-Coded Topography Map shows Gill Crater (upper left) as high-latitude occupant of the lunar near side’s south polar region: U.S. Geological Survey, Public Domain, via USGS Astrogeology Science Center / Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

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Marriner, Derdriu. “Lunar Crater Amundsen Honors Norwegian Polar Explorer Roald Amundsen.” Earth and Space News. Wednesday, July 16, 2014.
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Marriner, Derdriu. “Einstein Crater Parents Three Satellites On Near Side’s Western Limb.” Earth and Space News. Wednesday, March 13, 2013.
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Marriner, Derdriu. “Lamb Crater Honors British Mathematician and Physicist Sir Horace Lamb.” Earth and Space News. Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013.
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Marriner, Derdriu. “Lamb Crater Parents Three Satellites in Southern Mare Australe.” Earth and Space News. Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013.
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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.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Espin Crater Honors British Astronomer Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin

Summary: Espin Crater honors British astronomer Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin, whose astronomical accomplishment include discovering Nova Lacertae 1910.

Details of Lunar Astronautical Charts (LAC) 46 and 47 show Espin Crater with its sole satellite, Espin E, which lies between its parent and Seyfert Crater, on the lunar far side; courtesy NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) / GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center) / ASU (Arizona State University): Public Domain, via USGS Astrogeology Science Center / Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Espin Crater honors British astronomer Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin, whose accomplishments in observational astronomy include the discovery of a nova in Lacerta the Lizard constellation in 1910.

Espin Crater is a lunar impact crater that lies on the lunar far side, just beyond the near side’s northeastern limb. The crater’s northern rim exhibits heavy damage.

The worn crater is centered at 28.15 degrees north latitude, 109.34 degrees east longitude, according to the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. The northern hemisphere crater sets its northernmost and southernmost latitudes at 29.3 degrees north and 26.99 degrees north, respectively. The northwestern quadrant crater marks its easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 110.65 degrees east and 108.03 degrees east, respectively. Espin Crater’s diameter measures 70.01 kilometers.

Espin Crater parents one satellite on the lunar far side. Espin E lies to the east of its parent.

Espin E is centered at 28.43 degrees north latitude, 111.58 degrees east longitude. The satellite obtains northernmost and southernmost latitudes at 28.96 degrees north and 27.9 degrees north, respectively. Its easternmost and westernmost longitudes occur at 112.18 degrees east and 110.98 degrees east, respectively. Espin E has a diameter of 32.16 kilometers.

Espin E’s location places the satellite between its parent, to the west, and Seyfert Crater, to the east. Seyfert Crater lies to the east-northeast of Espin E’s parent.

Seyfert Crater is centered at 29.26 degrees north latitude, 114.34 degrees east longitude. Its northernmost and southernmost latitudes stretch to 30.96 degrees north and 27.57 degrees north, respectively. Its easternmost and westernmost longitudes reach 116.27 degrees east and 112.4 degrees east, respectively. Seyfert Crater’s diameter spans 102.63 kilometers.

Espin Crater honors British astronomer Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin (May 28, 1858-Dec. 2, 1934). The International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved Espin as the crater’s official name in 1970, during the organization’s XIVth (14th) General Assembly, held in Brighton, United Kingdom, from Wednesday, Aug. 18, to Friday, Aug. 27. The letter designation for the Espin Crater system’s sole satellite, Espin E, was approved in 2006.

Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin’s interest in observational astronomy dated to his attendance from 1872 to 1876 at Haileybury College in Hertfordshire, South England, according to his obituary in the Feb. 8, 1935, issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The Reverend Frederic John Hall, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), lectured in astronomy and conducted sessions in telescopic observation. While at Haileybury, Espin also was inspired by observing Coggia’s Comet (C/1874 H1), which was discovered April 17, 1874, by 19th-century Corsican astronomer Jérôme Eugène Coggia (Feb. 18, 1849-Jan. 15, 1919).

Espin was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) on Jan. 11, 1878, during the presidency of English spectroscopist Sir William Huggins (Feb. 7, 1824-May 12, 1910). The successful election of Espin and eight other candidates was announced in the Jan. 11, 1878, issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. His election at the young age of 19 made him “. . . accordingly one of our oldest Fellows” (page 319), stated the Royal Astronomical Society’s obituary.

Espin’s accomplishments in observational astronomy included the discovery of DI Lacertae (Nova Lacertae 1910; Nova Lac 1910), a nova in Lacerta the Lizard constellation on Dec. 30, 1910. He announced his discovery in the Jan. 13, 1911, issue of the Monthly Notices. Espin noted the red star’s first appearance, with 8.0 as estimated magnitude at twilight. He considered, however, the star’s magnitude as probably “. . . a little under 7.0 . . .” because of the “fainter” appearance of red stars “on a bright background” (page 189). Espin reported the star’s curious situation “. . . on the base line of a triangle of 12-mag. stars . . .” (page 190).

The takeaways for Espin Crater, which honors British astronomer Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin, are that the far side lunar impact crater lies just beyond the near side’s northeastern limb; that the primary crater hosts one satellite, Espin E; and that the crater’s namesake is credited with the discovery of DI Lacertae, a nova in Lacerta the Lizard constellation on Dec. 30, 1910.

Detail of Shaded Relief and Color-Coded Topography Map shows Espin Crater (upper right), with unmarked satellite E (right; east) and eastern neighbor Seyfert (upper right corner) in the lunar far side’s northwestern quadrant: U.S. Geological Survey, Public Domain, via USGS Astrogeology Science Center / Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

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

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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/

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