Category: Works

Le Port de La Ciotat (1907)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Port de La Ciotat (The Port of La Ciotat) 1907 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Braque was raised in the Normandy port town of Le Havre, where he first studied…

Castelnau-le-Lez (France)

Castelnau in Art: Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) La robe rose 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) Les lauriers roses 1867 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati     Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) Réunion de famille 1867 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) Thérèse lisant dans le…

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…

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)