Caricature canvas of the Neapolitan young men (1877)
Also known as: caricatures de Zunica, les caricatures de Zunica, Porcinari, Caracciolo et Santasiglia, Caricatures of Neapolitan gentlemen
Overview
On 23 April 1877, at Naples, with her mother ill and the doctor and Doenhoff coming and going, Marie notes: "je fais les caricatures de Zunica, Porcinari, Caracciolo et Santasiglia ! La toile est assez grande et elle contient déjà douze personnes, faites en deux ou trois fois..." (070.0866). It is a single large canvas on which she adds caricature heads of the Neapolitan young men of her circle, a dozen by that evening, in several short sittings. These were the "jeune Naples" who came to the family's rooms in the evenings (070.0541, 070.0817). Whereabouts unknown; no image. She had made caricatures of her Nice circle in 1875 (#Grande_caricature_1875).
Marie and this work
Marie's note shows how she worked at Naples: whenever she could not go out, she painted the visitors. The same week she also drew Melissano life-size in two minutes (#Portraits_Melissano). The picture is mentioned once; the inventory titles it with the first name "Zunica" only because of Marie's phrase.
References in Diary
Related Entries
- #Zunica, #Porcinari, #Caracciolo, #Santasiglia -- the four named subjects
- #Portraits_Melissano -- her portraits of Melissano, same weeks
Sources
- Diary paragraph 070.0866 in `content/_original/`.