La Danse à la campagne (c.1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Danse à la campagne (Dance in the countryside) c.1883 Black pencil on paper, 24.5 x 12.3 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Signed lower left: ‘Renoir’. This is a study for the large painting at MM. Durand-Ruel, engraved…

La Carmencita

(1868–1910) La Carmencita in Art: Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita 1890 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita c.1890 Musée du Louvre, Paris   Occupation Art model Dancer

La Carmencita (1890)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita 1890 Oil on canvas, 229 x 140 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Sargent may have first encountered the Spanish dancer known as La Carmencita (1868-1910) at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1890, she took New…

La Carmencita (c.1890)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita c.1890 Drawing, 34.6 x 22.6 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris After the painting ‘La Carmencita‘ exhibited by the artist at the Salon of 1890. Donated by the artist to the Luxembourg Museum in 1892, entered…

L’Adorazione dei pastori (1650)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) L’Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 1650 Oil on canvas, 239 x 181 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Sent directly from Naples in 1802, this painting was the first work by Ribera to enter the…