{"id":1610,"date":"2017-02-27T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/?page_id=1610"},"modified":"2017-02-27T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:26:28","slug":"blondel-merry-joseph-1781-1853","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/?page_id=1610","title":{"rendered":"Blondel, Merry-Joseph (1781-1853)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>La Circassienne au bain,\u00a0<\/em>dite aussi<em> La Baigneuse, 1814, huile sur toile, <\/em>dimensions de l&rsquo;original : 1,22 m x 2,44 m (?), dimensions de la restitution : 22 x 33 cm<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1609\" style=\"width: 332px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/P1050809.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1609\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/P1050809.jpg?resize=332%2C455&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"332\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/P1050809.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/P1050809.jpg?w=234&amp;ssl=1 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le tableau de Blondel restitu\u00e9.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1643\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lithographie-Blondel.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1643\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lithographie-Blondel.jpg?resize=227%2C306&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"227\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lithographie de 1823.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Cette toile est due \u00e0 un certain Merry-Joseph Blondel, peintre n\u00e9oclassique, \u00e9l\u00e8ve de Jean-Baptiste Regnault, lui-m\u00eame proche de David. Les m\u00e9rites de cet artiste furent r\u00e9compens\u00e9s puisqu\u2019en 1803, il re\u00e7ut le prix de Rome pour son <em>\u00c9n\u00e9e portant son p\u00e8re Anchise<\/em>. Le tableau de <em>La Circassienne au bain<\/em> a \u00e9t\u00e9 expos\u00e9 pour la premi\u00e8re fois au Salon de peinture du Louvre en novembre 1814. La critique reprocha la torsion maladroite du haut du corps et l&rsquo;absence de gr\u00e2ce de la figure. On y attendait aussi davantage d\u2019\u00e9rotisme ambigu, comme Blondel avait habitu\u00e9 ses admirateurs. Plus tard, des images du tableau reproduit en lithographie furent diffus\u00e9es, faisant acqu\u00e9rir \u00e0 celui-ci sa popularit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Ce ne fut donc pas un tableau quelconque qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9truit en 1912 lors du naufrage du Titanic. De plus, il a acquis une certaine notori\u00e9t\u00e9 lorsqu&rsquo;une compensation financi\u00e8re d&rsquo;un niveau record pour la perte d&rsquo;un seul bagage a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9clam\u00e9e \u00e0 la compagnie\u00a0White Star Line par Mauritz Hakan Bj\u00f6rnstr\u00f6m-Steffansson<strong>, <\/strong>\u00e2g\u00e9 de 28 ans, attach\u00e9 militaire su\u00e9dois qui regagnait son poste \u00e0 Washington et voyageait en 1<sup>\u00e8re<\/sup> Classe<strong>. <\/strong>Il demandait 100\u00a0000\u00a0dollars (l&rsquo;\u00e9quivalent de 2.4 millions de dollars en 2014). Le statut artistique important de Blondel \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque a fait que cette perte fut, au niveau financier,\u00a0 la plus importante de ce naufrage.<\/p>\n<p>Cette image d\u2019une baigneuse, ne serait-ce que figur\u00e9e sur un tableau, qui se trouve noy\u00e9e au fond de l\u2019oc\u00e9an ne pouvait qu\u2019enflammer l\u2019imagination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(c) Daniel Lagoutte<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Titanic-disaster.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1642\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Titanic-disaster.jpg?resize=424%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Titanic-disaster.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Titanic-disaster.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Circassienne au bain,\u00a0dite aussi La Baigneuse, 1814, huile sur toile, dimensions de l&rsquo;original : 1,22 m x 2,44 m (?), dimensions de la restitution : 22 x 33 cm &nbsp; \u00a0Cette toile est due \u00e0 un certain Merry-Joseph Blondel, peintre n\u00e9oclassique, \u00e9l\u00e8ve de Jean-Baptiste Regnault, lui-m\u00eame proche de David. Les m\u00e9rites de cet artiste &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/?page_id=1610\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture de <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blondel, Merry-Joseph (1781-1853)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tableauxdisparus.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}