Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette








Photos by Atelier Reutlinger
source peccadille

Medousas

Rudolf Wünsch, 'Medusenhaupt' (Medusa head), 1898

'Medusa Urlante', Basilio Cascella, 1904

Paul Glauco Cambon, 'Medusa Head', 1919

Vedder Elihu, 'The Dead Medusa', 1923

Franz Von Stuck (1863-1928) - Medusa (1892)

Head of Medusa by Peter Paul Rubens (1617)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) - Scudo con testa di Medusa (1595-96)

Maximilian Pirner (1854-1924) - Medusa (1891)

"Mélusine", Giuseppe Cellini

Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917) - Gorgonenhaupt (1891)

Pavel Svedomsky (1849-1904) - Medusa (1882)

Maximilian Pirner (1854-1924) - "Finis (The end of all things)", 1887

Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, "Head of Medusa", 1875

Franz Von Stuck (1863-1928), "Hunt", 1899

Colette Willy (Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Goudeket, 1873 - 1954)

Circa 1910. Photo by Henri Manuel.

Colette in her early years, at the Ba-Ta-Clan, performing "Ca grise". Paris, on April 4, 1912.

Colette in her early years, at the Ba-Ta-Clan, performing "Ca grise". Paris, on April 4, 1912.

Colette wearing man’s suit and smoking, circa 1906. Photo Henri Manuel.

Colette wearing man’s suit and smoking, circa 1906. Photo Henri Manuel.


ca. 1900s

Circa 1905


Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) was a French author and woman of letters nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. She was also a mime, actress, and a journalist. Colette was most widely known for her novella Gigi (1944).