All the sweet scenes and all the intense colors of the Orient from her living room?
Nothing could be easier, you just have to dream on a large screen like Jeanne Thil (1887-1968) did.
Delacroix in his time had found the recipe: to pass through the filter of memory.
On the web it produces more than reconstructions, realistic phantasmagorias.
Those of the Grand Prix of the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1907 could not be more attractive and performative.
So much so that today we still believe in this elsewhere: some of the posters created by the Calaisienne, such as
Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco by the transatlantic
, produced around 1928, are still used by tourist agencies.
They are even found reproduced in postcards in the souks.
Buying one of these pictures is a sign that we have been there.
So far, so close, Mlle Thil's Mediterranean!
If it is attested that she made several journeys in the south of Europe, one knows only one
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