Henri Fantin-Latour, French
“Oh, Was I Supposed To Put Weights on the Ends of This Thing BEFORE I Lifted? I Thought It Felt Too Easy,” 1867
Oil on canvas
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/// In this Portrait of Édouard Manet
he’s just back from the Champs-Élysées.
Outdoors, “dressed to the nines”
Manet rarely reclines,
unlike folks shown in Le déjeuner…
/// Jean-Philippe was the kind of a fop
whose debauchery no pleas could stop.
He was cruel and severe.
Note what he’s wielding here;
it’s his favorite new riding crop.
/// There’s a problem you’ve noticed, of course,
Jean-Philippe never rides on a horse.
The whippings he launches
on non-equine haunches
were one cause of his costly divorce.