Émile Zola (1840-1902) “Une oeuvre d’art est un coin de la création vu à travers un tempérament.” (A work of art is a corner of nature seen through a temperament.) Mes Haines
Émile Zola: Quotations
Month: June 2015
Lew Wallace: Quotations
Lew Wallace (1827-1905) “For to-day I take or give; For to-day I drink and live; For to-day I beg or borrow; Who knows about the silent morrow?” Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Charing Cross Bridge, Brouillard sur la Tamise (1903)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Charing Cross Bridge, Brouillard sur la Tamise (Charing Cross Bridge: Fog on the Thames) 1903 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Between 1899 and 1901, Monet visited London three times, for a…
Vue de la Seine à Lavacourt (1880)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vue de la Seine à Lavacourt (View of the Seine, Lavacourt) 1880 Oil on canvas, 61 x 81.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA See also: • Lavacourt (France)
La Seine à Lavacourt (1880)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Seine à Lavacourt (The Seine at Lavacourt) 1880 Oil on canvas, 98.425 x 149.225 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas See also: • Lavacourt (France)
Meule de foin à Giverny (1886)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Meule de foin à Giverny (Haystack at Giverny) 1886 Oil on canvas. 60.5 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Most of the second half of Monet‘s life was spent in and around Giverny, where the leader…
La Seine à Asnières (1873)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Seine à Asnières (The Seine at Asnieres) 1873 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 55.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Asnières-sur-Seine (France)
Les prairies à Giverny (1888)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les prairies à Giverny (Meadows at Giverny) 1888 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Monet first moved to Giverny in 1883, and was to spent the whole of the second of his…
Un coin de jardin à Montgeron (c.1876)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Un coin de jardin à Montgeron (Corner of the Garden at Montgeron) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 175 x 194 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Created at the very height of Impressionism by the leader of the movement,…
L’étang à Montgeron (c.1876)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’étang à Montgeron (Pond at Montgeron) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 173 x 194 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This is one of four decorative panels commissioned by the financier Ernest Hoschedé, amongst the first patrons of the…