Abbéma, Louise (1853-1927) Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt (Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt) 19th–early 20th Century Drypoint, 16 × 12 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)
(1844–1923) Henriette-Rosine Bernard The artist’s works: Le Fou et la Mort 1877 Petit Palais, Paris Louise Abbéma 1878 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Autoportrait en chimère c.1880 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Portrait funéraire de Jacques Damala c.1889 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dague: Algues…
Aalto, Alvar (1898-1976) 31 Armchair 1931–1932 Laminated and painted birch plywood and bentwood Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Aalto created this lightweight, economical, and comfortable chair by suspending a scrolled seating panel between two U-shaped wood frames. It is built…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Les Cyprès (Cypresses) 1889 Brown ink and graphite on paper, 61.9 x 47.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York This drawing dates from Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 stay at a psychiatric asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, during a period when…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Rue Norvins, Paris 1918 Oil on cardboard mounted on panel, 53.5 x 64 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Compare: Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) La Rue Norvins à Montmartre c.1910–1912 Private collection See also: • Montmartre | Paris (France) | Rue Norvins
Director: Jean Renoir Producer: Gaston Gallimard Screenplay: Jean Renoir Based on: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Genre: Drama | Historical | Romantic Music: Darius Milhaud Country: France Language: French Studio: Nouvelle Société des Films Release date: 1934 Running time: 120 minutes Valentine Tessier (1892-1981)…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Femme fumant une cigarette (Woman Smoking a Cigarette) 1890 Oil, watercolor, and graphite over charcoal on paper board, 47 x 29.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Around 1890 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec produced a number of works depicting…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La présentation de Jésus au Temple (The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1886–1894 Watercolor on paper, 22.2 x 15.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Forty days after the birth of Jesus, the Holy Family travels to Jerusalem…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Inondation à Moret (Flood at Moret) 1879 Oil on canvas, 54 x 71.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In the 1870s, the Seine and its tributaries, including the Loing, were flooded several times as a consequence of increased…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) The Bridge of Sighs c.1903–1904 Watercolor on paper, 25.4 x 35.6 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Sargent used multiple techniques to create light and highlights in this work. The most obvious is the application of white impasto…