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Proust, Marcel - Collected Poems - Potter
Identifier
019784
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Reynaldo Hahn : Portraits de peintres (4 pièces pour piano d'après les poèmes de Marcel Proust) 1894.
2- Potter (1625-1654)
Version originale pour récitant et piano par Bernard Verley et Jean Martin.
Reynaldo Hahn : Portraits de peintres d'après Proust - 2 Potter
Paulus Potter ( 20 November 1625 (baptised) – 17 January 1654 (buried)) was a Dutch painter who specialized in animals within landscapes, usually with a low vantage point. Before Potter died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 he succeeded in producing about 100 paintings, working continuously.
His most famous painting not to be confused with his work "The Bull" is The Young Bull
A description of the experience
Potter
Sombre chagrin des ciels coutumièrement gris,
Potter, mélancolique humeur des plaines sombres
Un laboureur tirant des seaux rentre et, chétive, |
The sombre grief of skies customarily grey,
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