Eddie Pensier writes:

Earlier this year I accompanied Blowhard Esq, brother of Blowhard (hereafter referred to as BOB) and occasional commenter Tex for a visit to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Despite being the sort of modernist architecture we normally abhor here at UR, I found the Getty to be a delightful place, well-organized inside and with charming, restful gardens outside.

Here I give you some feminine highlights from our trip. Personal favorites include Ter Brugghen’s bawdy Bacchante with an opportunistic little monkey; Godward’s Mischief and Repose, whose title fills in whatever blanks you might still have after seeing the languid poses, blissful expressions and translucent dresses; Pippi’s infant Bacchus getting what appears to be a handjob from Semele; and a ringer– Hals’ John the Evangelist, who looks so beautiful I had to include him here.

Mild neoclassical nudity after the break.

Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini), Portrait of a Woman with a Book of Music (1540-45)

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Thérèse, Countess Clary Aldringen (1896)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Portrait of Princess Leonilla of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (1843)

Giulio Pippi aka Giulio Romano, The Birth of Bacchus (c 1530)

Odillon Redon, Baronne de Domecy (c.1900)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Head of a Young Girl (1791)

John William Godward, Mischief and Repose (1895)

Édouard Manet, Portrait of Madame Brunet (1860s)

Frans Hals, Saint John The Evangelist (c.1625)

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, Saint Mary Magdalene at the Sepulcher (c1535)

Hendrick Ter Brugghen, Bacchante With an Ape (1627)

James Tissot, Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant (1866)

Jean-François Millet, Portrait of Louise-Antoinette Feuardent (1841)

John William Godward, Reverie (1904)

Paul Cézanne, Young Italian Woman at a Table (c1895-1900)

Édouard Manet, Spring (Jeanne Demarsy) (1881)

Jean-Étienne Liotard, Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven Years of Age (c 1755)

Related

• Another MCLOTW collection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
• Blowhard, Esq. recently took a jaunt to the Morgan Library.
• Not all my museum visits have been as pleasant as this one.