#TwoForTuesday :

Helmut Middendorf (Germany, b.1953)

#FishFriday :

Ernest Chaplet (France, 1835-1909) Entwined Fish and Eel, 1888-1909 Porcelain with sang de boeuf glaze Now on display at Philadelphia Museum of Art “Firing the Imagination: Japanese Intluence on French Ceramics, 1860-1910”

Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk was born #OTD (Germany 3 November 1889 - Netherlands 9 May 1957). He was a member of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.

Bild mit Vögeln (Picture with Birds), 1916

Oil on canvas, 39 x 49.5 cm (15.3 x 19.4 in)

For #WorldJellyfishDay 🪼:

Compass Jellyfish (Chrysaora hysoscella), native to coastal temperate NE Atlantic Ocean.

1. Plate XXVII from Philip Henry Gosse's (English, 1810-1888) A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast, 1853

2. glass model from the Cornell Collection of Blaschka Invertebrate Models, c. 1882

Happy #WorldNumbatDay!

From the blog:

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Numbat Day: Europe’s first published images

Plate XXVII from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London V.2, the illustration accompanying George Waterhouse's first scientific description of the Numbat as Myrmecobius fasciatus, 1836.

For #WorldJellyfishDay 🪼:

A "Méduse" (#ellyfish) stoneware lamp foot

Designed by Joseph Mougin (France, 1876-1961)

H 46 cm

#TwoForTuesday:

German Expressionist painter and graphic artist Otto Lange was born #OTD (29 October 1879 – 19 December 1944).

Blaue Vögel (Blue Birds), 1916

Papageien (Parrots), 1917

Color woodcuts on Japan laid paper

#TwoForTuesday on #NationalCatDay 🐱🐱:

Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (Austrian, 1891-1978)

Two Cats, 1923

color linocut on paper, 17 x 19 cm. (6.7 x 7.5 in.)

#TwoForTuesday :

William Adolphe Bouguereau (France, 1825-1905)

Arion on a Sea Horse, 1855

Bacchante on a Panther, 1855

Oil on canvas

On display at The Cleveland Museum of Art 1980.238,1-2

“These paintings are from a series of eight works that Bouguereau painted for a Parisian home decorated in the style inspired by ancient Roman wall paintings found at Pompeii.

The ancient Greek poet Arion escaped pirates by fleeing on the back of a sea creature attracted by the poet's singing. In the companion picture, a bacchante, a female follower of the Roman god Bacchus, rides a panther and carries a pinecone-tipped spear called a thyrsus. The figures are silhouetted against a gold honeycomb-patterned background evoking ancient Roman mosaics Bouguereau had studied in Italy. The soft, waxy flesh tones and glimmering gold leaf were calculated to come to life when viewed under the mansion's gas lighting.”

#Baturday :

Edmond Lachenal (France, 1855-1930)

Vases in the Form of Lanterns, c.1885

Glazed earthenware, Hand painted earthenware

Now on display at Philadelphia Museum of Art “Firing the Imagination: Japanese Intluence on French Ceramics, 1860-1910”

“In 1870, at age 15, Edmond Lachenal apprenticed himself to the renowned ceramist Théodore Deck. At the Deck studio in Paris, Lachenal learned both production techniques and the non-Western styles and ornamental traditions which Deck was beginning to incorporate in his work. Lachenal brought these approaches with him when he established his own workshop in 1883. There he produced small and large Japanese-inspired plaques, vases, and sculptural objects.

Shaped like Japanese paper lantern[s], th[ese] vase[s] [are] decorated with two sculptural brown bats. Lachenal may have been influenced by the work of the Japanese potter Miyagawa Kōzan (1842–1916), whose prize-winning ceramics were displayed at the Paris Universal Expositions of 1878 and 1889. Kōzan was celebrated for his decorative technique taka-ukibori (sculptural relief), in which he decorated the surfaces of his wares with realistic three-dimensional high reliefs and sculptures, such as a crab climbing on the edge of a bowl.”

#WorldLemurDay :

Stella Crofts (British, 1898-1964)

Ring-tailed Lemurs, 1926

stoneware, glazed in colors, H22cm

#WorldLemurDay:

Hans Christian Scherfig (Danish, 1905-1979)

Halvaber (Lemurs), 1972

Lithograph in colors, 56×36 cm

#WorldLemurDay :

André Margat (France, 1903-1997)

Deux Lémuriens (Two Lemurs), c.1935/1940

Lacquered wood, 26.5 x 22.5 cm

For #InternationalGibbonDay :

Gunnar Nylund (Sweden, 1904-1997)

Rörstrand sculpture: Gibbon mother and baby, 1940s

Chamotte stoneware, H 24.5cm

For #InternationalSnowLeopardDay :

Ounce (Snow Leopard)

Plate VI in A handbook to the carnivora : part 1 : cats, civets, and mongooses by Richard Lydekker, London, 1896

via BHL

#TwoForTuesday :

Plate (with two #parrots)

Made in Jingdezhen, China, c.1720; decorated in Holland, c.1725

Porcelain (hard-paste), Lime (alkaline) glaze; H 2.95 cm, Diam. 20.9 cm

On display at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library 2000.0061.015

“Print source for bird motif: p. 144, no. 44, engraving of Parrots in a northern European setting by Adriaen Collaert, 1580, no. 7 from Avium Vivae Icones.”

For #InternationalSlothDay 🦥:

The Strange Nature of the First Printed Illustration of a Sloth via Smithsonian Magazine