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Thursday, December 22, 2005

Baudelaire

Baudelaire knew that this brave defense of the much derided
middle class, offered without a touch of sarcasm, put him
at odds with his confreres; to them, after all,"that
inoffensive being" the bourgeois,"who would like nothing
better than to love good painting," had long been anathema.
--Peter Gay, [3]Pleasure Wars

There is a beautiful portrait of Baudeaire by Courbet, but I cannot find a digital representation of it. Can anyone find one?

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