Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 19

[cahn]

Yuletide nominations:

18th Century CE Federician RPF
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria
Voltaire
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Ernst Ahasverus von Lehndorff
Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Anna Amalie von Preußen | Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723-1787)
Catherine II of Russia
Hans Hermann von Katte
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf
August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758)

Circle of Voltaire RPF
Emilie du Chatelet
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (Madame de Pompadour)
John Hervey (1696-1743)
Marie Louise Mignot Denis
Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu (1696-1788)
Francesco Algarotti

Comments

Re: The Pop Art Thing I mentioned

[cahn]

AHHHHHHH wowowowowow

Fritz's face, omg, this is possibly the... first picture I have EVER seen of him smiling and happy?! (I mean, maybe there are some that exist? somewhere? that mildred will now link me to? but I am a fandom newcomer, I've only seen ones of him very serious) Which makes me happy and sad at the same time <3333

The dogs are just awesome! Okay, fine, I'm not a dog person so I guess I wouldn't be the person to ask, but they do not look like giraffes at all :P they are adorable and not even being a dog person I'm all d'awwwwww I can see why Fritz loves them so much <3333

Re: The Pop Art Thing I mentioned

[mildred_of_midgard]

that mildred will now link me to?

ROFL!

Aaaand, there goes another 30 minutes I could have spent generating Lehndorff commentary for you. :P

Fritz's face, omg, this is possibly the... first picture I have EVER seen of him smiling and happy?!

It definitely felt weird (in a good way) to me too! I keep staring at it in disbelief. Granted, portraiture conventions of the time had people looking serious, but...Fredersdorf and Lehndorff both look happier than Fritz in most of his pictures!

As for fanart, gosh. This is definitely the only one in color and the only one detailed enough to look anything like him, which is why it's so striking. It's certainly my favorite happy Fritz!

So there's this one, which is obviously continuing with the theme of the ONLY THING that makes Fritz happy, and is honestly what inspired my commission. (This one is my favorite, though; not only more detail, but pushes all my buttons, illustrates an episode that I wrote a fic about, and also, I'VE BEEN THERE! \o/)

Doesn't look like him.

Ditto.

Aand, going through my bookmarks led me to this, which I thought you might enjoy, cahn. :D He's about to be smiling at the end!

But yeah, not much. People tend to gravitate toward the tragedy.

(Gotta say I love the grumpy look in this one, though.)

Okay, fine, I'm not a dog person so I guess I wouldn't be the person to ask, but they do not look like giraffes at all :P

As the (only?) resident dog person here, I concur that they don't look like giraffes! I was actually looking at them with that in mind, lol, and thinking, "Nope, no giraffes in this picture."

The white one in front I was actually admiring for the distinctive body shape of the Italian Greyhound (at least the modern breed).

Re: The Pop Art Thing I mentioned

[prinzsorgenfrei]

Ditto.

When I read the first comment I was actually thinking "wait, have I ever drawn Fritz smiling?" and WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT, my drawing from four years ago :'DD
I just went through my 2016 art folder and apart from that one he always looks sad/pissed off.
Damn. I have to change that. More happy Fritz pictures!

The white one in front I was actually admiring for the distinctive body shape of the Italian Greyhound (at least the modern breed).

That one and the one in the back on the right were the ones where I was glued to a reference image, honestly. I could never do that when freehanding :'D Since the one in the front was going to be so very visible, really I wanted it to look right, so I found a photo that i liked and copied the shape. Overall it's pretty obvious which ones were drawn with a reference and which ones weren't... I need someone around me to get a greyhound so i can take proper photos, all angles on google are b o r i n g

Re: The Pop Art Thing I mentioned

[mildred_of_midgard]

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT, my drawing from four years ago :'DD

:DD

As you can tell, I like your stuff enough to bookmark it and to recognize your name when you pop up in my fic comments!

Also, congratulations, you're responsible for 50% of smiling-and-happy Fritz? :D

That one and the one in the back on the right were the ones where I was glued to a reference image, honestly.

Yeah, it was pretty clear to me which ones were closely following an actual Italian Greyhound.

I need someone around me to get a greyhound so i can take proper photos

Hee! I agree 100%.

Re: The Pop Art Thing I mentioned

[cahn]

Aaaand, there goes another 30 minutes I could have spent generating Lehndorff commentary for you. :P

I didn't mean it as a request for you to find them for me! Just that whenever I'm like "I've never seen X," I know that it is just a matter of time before you find stuff for me :D

Awwww that other Fritz+dog one! And hee to the Katte and Fredersdorf :D (Ah, now, is it plausible Schwerin sent Fredersdorf? Should we have put that in?) :D

AHAHAHAH I love the grumpy one actually.

But also I sort of get the feeling he was probably more grumpy than smiley usually -- and the smile that's in prinzsorgenfrei's pic is just SO sweet <3

Oh, yes, I may not be exactly a dog person but I did recognize the greyhound and liked it quite a bit :)

Re: The Pop Art Thing I mentioned

[selenak]

first picture I have EVER seen of him smiling and happy?!

In fairness, for most of art history all people of rank depicted in commissioned portraits were painted not smiling. (The Mona Lisa always excepted, if, that is, she was a commissioned portrait of a Florentine merchant's wife and not someone else or a made-up woman altogether - no idea that the latest theory is. The idea that you could depict an HRH looking other than serious is relatively recent, I believe - it was considered disrespectful and undignified.