#4 Chrysler Treasures - The Neophyte Traditional Cache
#4 Chrysler Treasures - The Neophyte
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Fourth in a series of caches highlighting the art of Norfolk's Chrysler Museum, One Memorial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510. The Chrysler Museum is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, Sunday from Noon to 5 pm. Admission is Free. Website: www.chrysler.org. This painting may be seen in Gallery 214 at the museum.
Gustave Doré's superb genre painting "The Neophyte" (ca. 1866-8) features a young Carthusian novice who apparently took his vows hastily & is beset with misgivings. Seated amongst a row of doting, driveling elders, he stares out at the viewer, his eyes full of loneliness & alienation. Doré's genius for caricature serves to heighten the extreme contrast in the painting between youth & old age. Dore sensed the grim comedy of the young man's predicament and quipped, "He will be over the wall tonight. This melodramatic, Romantic image of spiritual alienation was one of Doré's favorites. During the next two decades, he varied & expanded upon this composition in more than a dozen etchings & drawings. Doré was born in Strasbourg. An artistic prodigy, he produced his first lithographs by the age of 15. He made his debut at the Salon in 1848 & by 1854 had achieved considerable fame. Extraordinarily prolific, he illustrated over 220 books, among them Dante's Inferno (1861) and the Bible (1866). His graphic style, darkly Romantic, was immensely popular & by 1875 he'd become France's most celebrated illustrator. After 1850 he began submitting landscapes, genre paintings, historical & biblical scenes to the Salon.
Other caches in this series include:
Other caches in this series include:
Chrysler Treasures #1 - The Norfolk Mace (GC7C965) Located in Gallery 208
Chrysler Treasures # 3 - Angel Appearing to Shepherds (GC7EC96) Located in Gallery 211
Chrysler Treasures # 4 - The Neophyte (GC7ECR7) Located in Gallery 214
Chrysler Treasures # 5 - The Wounded Indian (GC7EMPZ) (No longer at the Chrysler)
Chrysler Treasures # 6 - Picasso (redux) (GCA6RA1) Located in Gallery 219
Chrysler Treasures # 9 - Veronese (GC7EYA3) Located in Gallery 204
Chrysler Treasures #10 - The Last Judgement (GC7EYE5) Located in Gallery 202
Chrysler Treasures #11 - The Vegetable Vendor (GC7EZM5) Located in Gallery 207
Chrysler Treasures #12 - James Baldwin (GC7F3HN) Located in Gallery 222
Chrysler Treasures #13 - Ganymede and the Eagle (redux) (GCARWVG) Located in Gallery 208
Chrysler Treasures #14 - Renoir (GC7F3PJ) Located in Gallery 217
Chrysler Treasures #15 - Samurai Armor (GC7F6M8) Located in Gallery 106
Chrysler Treasures #16 - Tiffany Glass (GC7F5WY) Located in Gallery 116
Chrysler Treasures #18 - Naga Buddha (redux) (GC8A8PE) Located in Gallery 107
Chrysler Treasures #19 - Sarcophagus (redux) (GC8A8X8) Located in Gallery 109
Chrysler Treasures #20 - Georgia O'Keefe(redux) (8TNNX) (located in Gallery 223
Chrysler Treasures # 21 - Libenksy and Brychtova (GC7QFM0) Located in Gallery 223
Chrysler Treasures # 22 - Abstract Expressionism (GC7QG86) Located in Gallery 223
Chrysler Treasures # 23 - Hamlet Robot (GC7QG8E) Located in Gallery 223 (now in storeage)
Chrysler Treasures # 25 - Bernini's Bust of Christ (GC8RZB5) in Gallery 205
Chrysler Treasures # 26 - MacPherson and MacDonald (GC8ZXF5) in Gallery 218
Chrysler Treasures # 27 - Karen Lamonte (GC8ZY3Q) in Gallery 108
Chrysler Treasures # 28 - Amor Forgiven (GC90M9V) in Galley 216
Chrysler Treasures # 29 - Standing Warrior (GC90VFT) in Gallery 105
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