Month: February 2013

Hermitage (Pontoise)

L’Hermitage in Art: Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Les côteaux de l’Hermitage c.1867 Guggenheim Museum, New York     Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Vue de l’Hermitage, Côte de Jallais c.1867 Private collection     Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Rue de l’Hermitage, Pontoise 1873–1875 Dallas Museum…

Pontoise (France)

Pontoise in Art: Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Petites maisons près de Pontoise c.1873–1874 Fogg Museum, Cambridge     Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Le Jardin de Pissarro 1881 Private collection     Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Jalais Hill, Pontoise 1867 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York  …

Royal Society (London)

Formation: November 1660 Address: 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, St. James’s, London SW1Y 5AG Website: https://royalsociety.org/ Fellows: • Byron, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) • Dryden, John (1631-1700) • Evans, Arthur (1851-1941) • Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) • Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) • Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke…

La Guerre (c.1894)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Guerre (War, or Discord on Horseback) c.1894 Oil on canvas, 114.5 x 195 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris More than twenty years after the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870 and the Commune in 1871 when the Douanier Rousseau painted War,…

La charmeuse de serpents (1907)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La charmeuse de serpents (The Snake Charmer) 1907 Oil on canvas, 167 x 189.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Rousseau, who was self-taught and began painting late in life, travelled very little. Most of his jungles were painted in the…

Portrait de Madame M. (c.1896)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait de Madame M. (Portrait of Madame M.) c.1896 Oil on canvas, 198 x 114.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Amongst the many portraits painted by Rousseau, it is rare to find a full-length portrait and one of such a…

Portrait de femme (c.1895)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) c.1895 Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 105.5 cm Musée Picasso, Paris   Brassaï, photo of Picasso in his studio at 23 rue La Boétie, standing in front of Rousseau’s Portrait of a…