{"id":18479,"date":"2017-10-06T01:10:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T00:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18479"},"modified":"2017-10-06T01:10:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T00:10:20","slug":"eugene-thiviers-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/10\/06\/eugene-thiviers-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Eug\u00e8ne Thivier&#8217;s Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mus\u00e9e_Augustins_-_Eug\u00e8ne_Thivier_-_Le_Cauchemar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thivier1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thivier1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>October is the month of nightmares so now seemed a suitable moment to air this sculpture,\u00a0<em>The Nightmare<\/em> (1894) by Eug\u00e8ne Thivier, which I&#8217;ve had bookmarked for some time. Thivier (1845\u20131920) seems to be one of those artists who produces a single striking work with little else in the oeuvre to match it. The subject is a familiar one, of course, a variation on the sleeper menaced by an incubus or other creature of the night. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/10\/30\/fuselis-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous October post<\/a> was devoted to Fuseli&#8217;s celebrated painted version; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Nightmares_in_art\" target=\"_blank\">similar pictorial examples abound<\/a> but sculptures of the theme are scarce. Thivier&#8217;s work is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustins.org\/en\/les-collections\/sculptures\/xix-debut-xxe\/panorama-des-oeuvres\/-\/oeuvre\/49850\" target=\"_blank\">Mus\u00e9e des Augustins<\/a> in Toulouse. Wikimedia Commons has <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Le_Cauchemar_by_Eug\u00e8ne_Thivier\" target=\"_blank\">a few more photos<\/a> of the poor woman and her nocturnal tormentor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Eug\u00e8ne_Thivier_-_Cauchemar_-_Mus\u00e9e_des_Augustins_-_RI_1156.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thivier2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thivier2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:%22Le_cauchemar%22_(%22the_nightmare%22)_-_panoramio.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thivier3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thivier3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/10\/30\/fuselis-nightmare\/\">Fuseli\u2019s Nightmare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is the month of nightmares so now seemed a suitable moment to air this sculpture,\u00a0The Nightmare (1894) by Eug\u00e8ne Thivier, which I&#8217;ve had bookmarked for some time. Thivier (1845\u20131920) seems to be one of those artists who produces a single striking work with little else in the oeuvre to match it. The subject is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/10\/06\/eugene-thiviers-nightmare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eug\u00e8ne Thivier&#8217;s Nightmare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,22,41],"tags":[9118],"class_list":["post-18479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-horror","category-sculpture","tag-eugene-thivier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4O3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}