Jean Baptiste de Champaigne and Nicolas de Plattemontagne, French
“Oh Hi, I’d Like You To Meet Ron Tucker From People Magazine. Guess Who Was Just Named ‘Sexiest Cellist Alive,'” 1654
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about the first artist can be found here, here (if truncated, can be read in full for free on Fridays), and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more).
Info, or links that point to more info, about the second artist can be found here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more).
/// Two French artists have painted each other.
They’re good friends; each as close as a brother.
Both are just twenty-three
and, from what we can see,
the same man may have bedded each mother.
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/// It’s been said our resemblance is phony.
I’m too ruddy and he is too bony.
Well, I have to admit
that we’ve faked it a bit
to do ads for “Which twin has the Toni?”
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/// I can point to my double with pride;
this pale zombie who sits by my side.
He was once on his own.
Then they made me, (his clone).
I survived, but then, sadly, he died.