#cloquet

[jaygabler]

Left: Jessica Lange as a high school senior, before leaving Minnesota Right: Jessica Lange one year later, after leaving Minnesota source

#Jessica Lange #Minnesota #Cloquet

[southernlymiegirl]

I love my hometown! These were taken on my way to work. The first one is just down from the school I work at. #nofilter #lovemyhometown #cloquet #minnesota #northernminnesota #smalltown #smalltownlife #beautifulsunrise #wintersunrise (at Cloquet, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CloK8M1OSf1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#nofilter #lovemyhometown #cloquet #minnesota #northernminnesota #smalltown #smalltownlife #beautifulsunrise #wintersunrise

[dulutheventlighting]

Queen Of Peace school fundraiser 2024. Up lighting in blue and yellow with school logo and star gobo projections by Duluth Event Lighting.

https://dulutheventlighting.com/

#duluth event lighting #up lighting #wedding #duluth #Cloquet

[chaddavisphotography]

100 year old USG Paper Mill in Cloquet, Minnesota.

#Cloquet #Factory #Industrial #Mill #Minnesota #Paper #Plant #USG

[ubazone]

Nostalgia galore at Gordy's Hi-Hat's Curbside Classic Car Show - Pine Journal http://dlvr.it/SW9YHK

#CLOQUET #WRENSHALL #ESKO

[loves-rain]

#poetry #art #cloquet

[nobrashfestivity]

Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet, Statues Also Die,1953

#Alain Resnais #Chris Marker #Ghislain Cloquet #Statues Also Die #my screencaps #documentary #africa #this is why I love chris marker

[filmjunky-99]

n a k e d l u n c h, 1991 🎬 dir. david cronenberg 'The Zone Takes Care of Its Own'

#film #naked lunch #naked lunch 1991 #david cronenberg #peter weller #julian sands #Michael Zelniker #Nicholas Campbell #Robert A. Silverman #william lee #Yves Cloquet #Hank #Martin #Hans #The Zone Takes Care of Its Own

[moratoirenoir]

#oriza l. legrand #relique d'amour #hugo lambert #saint omer #alice diop #la noire de #ousmane sembène #les statues meurent aussi #chris marker #alain resnais #ghislain cloquet

[nordleuchten]

La Fayette's eye colour

A while ago I stumbled over this post where different passages from secondary sources were compiled in order to determine La Fayette’s physical appearance. These different books quote him as having blue, brown or green eyes of varying shades. Since three different eye colours is a bit much for one person and since I rather confidentially answered a question about La Fayette’s eye colour in the past, I thought it worthwhile to revisit the topic.

I had based my original answer on the existing portraits painted of La Fayette. In portraits taken from life (or portraits that were direct copies of portraits taken from life) we see him with distinctively brown eyes.

I hope we all can see why I thought brown eyes were the forgone answer to the question. But it appears that I was wrong. This time I also turned to the memoirs of Jules Germain Cloquet, La Fayette’s close friend and family physician. He wrote:

His head was large; his face oval and regular; his forehead lofty and open; his eyes, which were full of goodness and meaning, were large and prominent, of a greyish blue, and surmounted with light and well-arched, but not bushy eyebrows.

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, p. 8.

We see that Cloquet was certain that La Fayette’s eyes were not brown but blue. But there is more. Here is the excerpt of a passport given to La Fayette on April 20, 1822:

Daniels, M. F. (1972). The Lafayette Collection at Cornell. The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 29(2), 95–137. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29781504 (05/02/2023).

I think there is rather little evidence to back the claim that La Fayette had green eyes. While I feel more inclined to believe the written sources, I am also confused as to why so many artists, over the span of roughly fifty years, painted La Fayette with brown eyes. I do know that the lighting and the angle can have a huge impact at the colour you perceive … but still?

Unknown title [La Fayette as a teenager], by unknown artist, 1773 or earlier

Unknown title [Portrait of La Fayette on the occasion of his wedding], by unknown artist, 1773/1774

Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, en uniforme de l'armée continentale by Charles Wilson Peale, 1779

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis De Lafayette by Charles Wilson Peale, 1779/1780

Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown by Charles Wilson Peale, 1784

Marquis de Lafayette by Ary Scheffer, 1822

Portrait of Lafayette by Ary Scheffer, 1823

Marquis de Lafayette by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1825

Portrait of Marquis de Lafayette by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1826

Portrait of Lafayette as an old man by Louise-Adéone Drölling, 1830

#marquis de lafayette #la fayette #correction #art #charles willson peale #samuel finley breese morse #french history #american history #american revolution #tour of 1824 1825 #jules germain cloquet #eye colour

[lamiaprigione]

Le Trou (1960)

#film #movie #Le Trou #il buco #the hole #Jacques Becker #Jean Keraudy #Ghislain Cloquet #Marc Michel #Philippe Leroy #france #francia #cinema #francese

[mtonino]

Au Hasard Bresson (1967) Director: Theodor Kotulla

Robert Bresson & Ghislain Cloquet directing Nadine Nortier on the sets of Mouchette (1967)

#au hasard bresson #theodor kotulla #video #on the set #behind the scenes #mouchette #robert bresson #ghislain cloquet

[southernlymiegirl]

I live in a winter wonderland! #winterwonderland #cloquet #northernminnesota #minnesota #winterhasjustbegun (at Cloquet, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnDGIJRpQC3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#winterwonderland #cloquet #northernminnesota #minnesota #winterhasjustbegun

[dulutheventlighting]

Queen Of Peace school fundraiser 2024. Up lighting in blue and yellow with school logo and star gobo projections by Duluth Event Lighting.

https://dulutheventlighting.com/

#duluth event lighting #up lighting #wedding #cloquet

[spookyfoxdreamer]

#23 1/2 years old Barbara Lee Redfield Payton in cloquet City Carlton county Minnesota NC USA NA on October 31st 1951ad rabbit year screamqn1

[ubazone]

Nostalgia galore at Gordy's Hi-Hat's Curbside Classic Car Show - Pine Journal http://dlvr.it/SW9R48

#CLOQUET #WRENSHALL #ESKO