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'''Zacharie Astruc''''s The mask seller, 1883 located at the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, France. Zacharie Astruc was a French artist. The The mask seller was created around 1883
'''The Mask Seller''' is a bronze statue by the painter, poet, critic and French sculptor Zacharie Astruc, in 1883.


The work is exhibited in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris.


[https://fr.boywiki.org/wiki/Le_marchand_de_masques_(Zacharie_Astruc) The Mask Seller (Zacharie Astruc) '''→''' fr:Le marchand de masques (Zacharie Astruc}]
This sculpture depicts a young boy standing, wearing only a pair of figure-hugging shorts embroidered with mythological designs and a pair of sandals. Supported on the right leg, he holds in his left hand lifted above him a mask of Victor Hugo. At his feet around the base are other masks representing famous characters from the end of the 19th century (writers, painters, musicians, a sculptor, and a single politician).


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'''The Mask Seller''' is a bronze statue of the painter, poet, critic and French sculptor Zacharie Astruc, in 1883.


==Boylove References==


The work is exhibited in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris.[1]
[[Image:ASTRUC Zacharie 1883 Le marchand de masques (détail) 500x378.jpg|250px|left]]
It is probably no coincidence that the pattern decorating the left buttock of the boy is a reproduction of a drawing of the famous krater type Greek red-figure pottery of the 'Berlin painter' <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Painter</ref>, representing [[Ganymede]] naked with a [[Trochus/Hoop|hoop and a rooster]]. While leaving out the other side of the vase, where the tip of Zeus’s spear completes the sexual symbolism, this discreet evocation is clearly pedosexual..


   
[[Image:ASTRUC Zacharie 1883 Le marchand de masques (détail) 500x372.jpg|250px|left]]
The front of the shorts are just as amazing, a horse covers the boy's quite prominent defining characteristic. What is the suggestion here? That there is a possibility that the horse will rear up? Or is it an allusion to the myth of Ganymede, which Zeus compensated his removal by offering his father wonderful horses? One should note however, that the animal is being petted by the hand of a woman.


This sculpture depicts a young boy standing, only wearing a pair of figure-hugging shorts embroidered antiquisants designs and a pair of sandals. Support on the right leg, he holds in his left hand lifted above him a mask of Victor Hugo. At his feet around the base are other masks representing famous characters from the end of the 19th century (writers, painters, musicians, a sculptor, and a single politician).
Taken in its entirety, it could be interpreted as an affirmation and an illustration of the sexual character, both desirable and desiring, of adolescence, while at the same time, its bisexual nature.
 
 
==Allusion pédérastique==
 
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Ce n’est sans doute pas un hasard si le motif décorant la fesse gauche du garçon reproduit un dessin du célèbre cratère [[Grèce antique|grec]] à figures rouges du “Peintre de Berlin”, représentant [[Ganymède]] nu avec un cerceau et un [[coq]].
 
Sans aller jusqu’à montrer l’autre face du vase (où [[Zeus]] pointe sa lance pour compléter la symbolique sexuelle), cette évocation discrète est néanmoins clairement pédérastique.
 
[[Image:ASTRUC Zacharie 1883 Le marchand de masques (détail) 500x372.jpg|250px|gauche|thumb]]
Sur le devant de la culotte, il est tout aussi étonnant de voir un cheval couvrir le sexe assez proéminent du garçon. Est-ce l’évocation d’une possibilité de se cabrer ? Ou encore une allusion au mythe de Ganymède, dont Zeus compensa l’enlèvement en offrant à son père des chevaux merveilleux ? On remarque cependant que l’animal est flatté de la main par une femme.
 
L’ensemble de ces motifs pourrait être interprété comme une affirmation et une illustration du caractère sexué, à la fois désirable et désirant, de l’adolescent, en même temps que de sa nature bisexuelle.
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== Notes et références ==
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* ↑ Jardins du Luxembourg : 48° 50′ 46.32″ N, 2° 20′ 18.44″ E.
 
* [https://fr.boywiki.org/wiki/Le_marchand_de_masques_(Zacharie_Astruc) The Mask Seller (Zacharie Astruc) '''&rarr;''' fr:Le marchand de masques (Zacharie Astruc}]


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Latest revision as of 14:04, 27 September 2013

The Mask Seller is a bronze statue by the painter, poet, critic and French sculptor Zacharie Astruc, in 1883.

The work is exhibited in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris.

This sculpture depicts a young boy standing, wearing only a pair of figure-hugging shorts embroidered with mythological designs and a pair of sandals. Supported on the right leg, he holds in his left hand lifted above him a mask of Victor Hugo. At his feet around the base are other masks representing famous characters from the end of the 19th century (writers, painters, musicians, a sculptor, and a single politician).


Boylove References

It is probably no coincidence that the pattern decorating the left buttock of the boy is a reproduction of a drawing of the famous krater type Greek red-figure pottery of the 'Berlin painter' [1], representing Ganymede naked with a hoop and a rooster. While leaving out the other side of the vase, where the tip of Zeus’s spear completes the sexual symbolism, this discreet evocation is clearly pedosexual..

The front of the shorts are just as amazing, a horse covers the boy's quite prominent defining characteristic. What is the suggestion here? That there is a possibility that the horse will rear up? Or is it an allusion to the myth of Ganymede, which Zeus compensated his removal by offering his father wonderful horses? One should note however, that the animal is being petted by the hand of a woman.

Taken in its entirety, it could be interpreted as an affirmation and an illustration of the sexual character, both desirable and desiring, of adolescence, while at the same time, its bisexual nature.



Notes et références

  1. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Painter
  • ↑ Jardins du Luxembourg : 48° 50′ 46.32″ N, 2° 20′ 18.44″ E.
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