Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac, Henri Lucien Doucet (1879)
Passionately Pre-Posted…
• Portrait of a Peacock — Cornelia Otis Skinner’s biographical sketch of Montesquiou
• Le Paon dans les Pyrénées — review of Julian Barnes’ The Man in the Red Coat (2019)
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• The hands of Robert de Montesquiou at Strange Flowers
Hans Holbein the Younger, Bildnis eines jungen Kaufmannes (1541) / Portrait of a Young Merchant
Previously pre-posted portrait posts:
• Fur King Hal — Holbein’s portrait of Henry VIII
• Anne’s Hans’ — Holbein’s portrait of Anne Cresacre
The Silver Moon Nocturne by Montague Dawson (1890-1973)
(Click for larger)
Perdita (1866) by Frederick Sandys
Posteriorly post-posted:
• Stare-Way to Hair, Then — Medusa by Frederick Sandys
Masques made with Seashells by Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-79) (click for larger)
Previously pre-posted:
• Eyeway to Ell — a better paronamasia than this one…
Portrait of Henry VIII (1540) by Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543)
Gustave Moreau, L’Apparition (1876-7)
Zelfportret (1601) by Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638) (pron. roughly OO-tuh-vaal), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits
Previously pre-posted:
• She-Shell — Perseus Rescuing Andromeda (1611) by Wtewael
Autoritratto (1902) di Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits
Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (c. 1612), Cristofano Allori (1577-1621)
Interesting facts in-terms-of-issues-around this painting, known as Judith with the Head of Holofernes in English: according to Allori’s first biographer Filippo Baldinucci, the severed head is a self-portrait of Allori, the decapitatrix is an ex-girlfriend, Maria di Giovanni Mazzafirri, and the old servant is her mother (from A Face to the World, Laura Cumming, 2009).
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 
