Tag: Gaston La Touche
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Gaston La Touche’s La promenade, with footnotes, Part 79
In this work, La Touche finds a later echo in the closing scenes in the film of Colette’s novella, Gigi, where Louis Jourdan and Leslie Caron promenade in the Bois de Boulogne. In the shade, other figures relax and enjoy the afternoon sun. This is the Belle Epoque at its height. However, in a social…