Category: Art

Victorine Meurent

(1844–1927) Victorine Louise Meurent The artist’s works: Le jour des rameaux 1885 Musée Municipal d’Art et d’Histoire, Colombes Victorine Meurent in Art: Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Une moderne Olympia 1873–1874 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Gachet, Paul (1828-1909) Une moderne Olympia, copie d’après Cézanne s.d.…

Méry Laurent

(1849–1900) Anne Rose Suzanne Louviot Méry Laurent in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Automne, Méry Laurent 1882 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Méry Laurent au carlin 1882 Pushkin Museum, Moscow   Stéphane Mallarmé and Méry Laurent in 1896. Born April…

Portrait of Albrecht Dürer the Elder (1497)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of Albrecht Dürer the Elder (Bildnis des Albrecht Dürer des Älteren) 1497 Oil on lime, 51 x 40.3 cm National Gallery, London The inscription at the top of this picture tells us the sitter is Dürer’s father, Albrecht…

Portrait of Albrecht Dürer the Elder (1490)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of Albrecht Dürer the Elder (Bildnis des Albrecht Dürer des Älteren) 1490 Oil on panel, 47.5 x 39.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Diptych of Dürer’s Parents. Companion: Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of Barbara Dürer, née Holper…

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

(1732–1806) Jean-Honoré Nicolas Fragonard The artist’s works: Le Concours musical c.1749–1752 Wallace Collection, London La Bascule c.1750–1752 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid La Bergère c.1750–1752 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Le Colin-Maillard c.1750–1752 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Les amants heureux c.1751–1755 Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Psyché montrant…

Die Drahtziehmühle (c.1489)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Die Drahtziehmühle (The Wire-drawing Mill) c.1489 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 29 x 42.6 cm Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin The depiction of the landscape environment, which is self-evident and particularly interesting to us, was not common for centuries, from the…

Christ as the Man of Sorrows (c.1492-1493)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Christ as the Man of Sorrows c.1492–1493 Oil on panel, 19 x 30 cm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe Bearing the marks of martyrdom and holding the instruments used to scourge him in his hands, a pensive, exhausted man crouches…

Julie Manet

(1878–1966) Julie Manet Rouart The artist’s works: Femme assise au Bois de Boulogne 1893–1894 British Museum, London Julie Manet in Art: Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Eugène Manet et sa fille à Bougival 1881 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris     Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895)…

Ceramists

• Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963) • Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) • Miró, Joan (1893-1983) • Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) • Renoir, Claude (1901-1969) • Robbia, Luca della (1400-1482)