Category: Art

Nicolosia Bellini

Nicolosia Mantegna, née Bellini Nicolosia painted by her brother Giovanni (left) and by her husband (right). Nicolosia in Art: Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio c.1470 Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia     Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Presentazione al Tempio c.1454 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin   Born Venezia (Italia) Died Mantova (Italia)…

Au café (c.1877)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Au café (In the Café) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 35.7 x 27.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Everyday life Together with Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir is one of the central figures of impressionism. But while Monet prefers to paint…

La table de toilette (1895)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La table de toilette (The Dressing Table) 1895 Oil on canvas, 65.6 x 115 cm Private collection Of the five panels, including the present lot, commissioned by Thadée and Misia Natanson, three can be found in public institutions,…

Peacock (1878)

Morris, William (1834-1896) Peacock 1878 Tapestry, 290 x 168 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Tapestry: wool weave, twill weave (twisted woolen warp, green; woolen wefts, dark blue and light blue, and slatted wefts, ochre, orange, green, brown and blue); pattern reproduced 4…

Erasme (c.1899)

Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Erasme (Erasmus) c.1899 One-sided bronze medallion, diameter 13.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Inscription: Monogram: AL legend in Greek and Latin: [ten kreitto ta sougrammata deieei: imago ad v […] effigie] in the field: ER / ROT / EXPRESSA…

Alphonse Legros (c.1881)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Alphonse Legros c.1881 Bronze, 41 x 17.4 x 45.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Head in bronze and cast iron on pedestal. (Orsay) See also: • Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911)

Victor Hugo sur le rocher des Proscrits (c.1853)

Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Victor Hugo sur le rocher des Proscrits (Victor Hugo on the Rock of the Proscribed) c.1853 Print on salted paper, 17 x 17 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Victor Hugo arranged the staging, his son did the shooting. (Orsay)

Summer Night (1890)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Summer Night 1890 Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 102 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Winslow Homer began as a cartoonist reporter during the Civil War, before painting scenes describing the daily life of the army and the rural world…