And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, February 25, 1841 – December 3, 1919. With Pierre Bonnard and Misia Natanson at the funeral of Stéphane Mallarmé on September 11, 1898.
Damn fine self portrait.
ReplyDeleteThe guy is only 57 years old in this photo? He looks like he's 107!
ReplyDeleteMaybe he was high mileage by then. He looks like a fun guy...
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