The Interweb Fails?

[unforth]

In Amsterdam, I saw this painting I really, really loved. They didn't have any books or postcards of it there, so I made a mental note that the name was something like "Dragoon" and looked it up when I had internet. And couldn't find it. Thus, when my mother went to Amsterdam a couple weeks later, I asked her kindly to check the artist name and the full name of the painting for me so that I could track it down. And she did - "Dragoon on Watch" by Rene Pierre Charles Princeteau. Armed with this information, I went to try to find a picture of the painting. And I still can't find anything. Internet, why have you failed me?

Apparently, Rene Princeteau was a deaf-mute painter who was a friend of the Toulouse-Lautrec family, taught Henri to paint. He liked to paint animals and military subjects. And the only painting of his I can find pictures of is a portrait of Toulouse-Lautrec. Damn you Van Gogh Museum for not allowing me to take pictures!!

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[ultimabaka.livejournal.com]

It's not that the internet has failed you, it's that the Van Gogh museum puts one helluva tight lip on it's stuff, essentially preventing the internet from gaining any knowledge.

However, in the two minutes of searching, I have learned the following:
(a) the painting is also called "Dragoon and the depiction of the Franco-Prussian War"
(b) if you have a JSTOR password (which you might, given your literary contacts), you might be able to see a digital copy of the picture here. However, since I'm not sure what the picture actually looks like, I can't tell for sure if this is the right one.

Let me know if I'm right *huggles*
-- Gerardo

[unforth.livejournal.com]

You're one step off - all of that links to an article about the painting, not the painting itself. There might be a reproduction of the image there, but then again there may not. Actually, lemme check that, I'm in an apartment with two people who have passwords that'll get me into JSTOR.

[unforth.livejournal.com]

It's not in there, unfortunately. But either way, thanks for trying.

I'm telling you, the interweb has failed.

[ultimabaka.livejournal.com]

No shot...I have not yet begun to fight! :)
*huggle*
-- Gerardo

[ultimabaka.livejournal.com]

If you've got 30 bucks, I'm pretty confident this place has a digital picture...the size is a question though, and I'm not 100% certain it's got it:
http://www.artnet.com/artist/578624/rene-pierre-charles-princeteau.html

[ultimabaka.livejournal.com]

If you get a free hour or so when you come home, I think I found a paper copy of it, within this book. It's located in something called the catnyp, which I think is the section for reserve books you can't take out of the New York Public Library network.

I'd take a looksie, but my schedule lingers on negative time right now :(

[galiyah.livejournal.com]

My lame attempt at helping:
http://www.amazon.com/Nationalism-Culture-1870-1914-Studies-History/dp/0300107552/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215487769&sr=8-1

If you can find this book in the library, it might have a photo in it. Good luck!

[schenker28.livejournal.com]

random, not really related thought: I saw your lotus bleu Tintin poster in a store window last night