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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[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 :(