Paris (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mortimer Menpes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1334256187 ISBN 13: 9781334256189

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

Synopsis

Excerpt from Paris

BY what magic is it that Paris takes possession of you, holds you, fascinates? It is not her natural beauties, not the splendour of her palaces and other public institutions, not her many avenues and the breadth and nobility of her other roads. Beauty in itself alone has not the power to fascinate. What, then, the mysterious charm? It is not easy to say. Throughout the ages, great writers have been singing the praises of Paris le paradis de l'um'vers - la ville sans péche'. Each has chosen a Special aspect of the theme: Paris at the Present Time, Paris in History, Paris by Day, Paris by Night, Parisian Homes, The Latin Quarter, The Restaurants, The Shops, The Art Life, The Poor of Paris, Parisian Pastimes, Paris of the Faubourgs - all have been sedulously treated.

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About the Author

Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938) was, in his own words, "a painter, etcher, raconteur andAaAA rifle-shot."

Born in Port Adelaide, Australia on February 22, 1855, Menpes attended art classes as a young man and in 1975, married Rosa Mary Grosse. The couple had a son and two daughters, one of whom, Dorothy Whistler Menpes, was artist James McNeil Whistler's namesake and goddaughter.

After moving to England with his family in 1878, Menpes continued his art studies at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington, and exhibited at a Royal Academy exhibition for the first time in 1880. It was around this same time, during a sketching tour of Brittany, he first met Whistler.

In 1887, Menpes traveled to Japan and upon his return to London, held his first one-man show, at Dowdeswell's gallery. In the years that followed that show and his concurrent falling-out with Whistler, Menpes traveled widely and continued his own etching and painting. Later, and often working with his daughter Dorothy, he published a number of illustrated books, including the first edition of Whistler As I Knew Him. Menpes died in Pangbourne, England, on April 1, 1938.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1334256187
• ISBN 13: 9781334256189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 501