The Ark of Grace

54 BC

Births: • Tibullus (c.54 BC-c.19 BC) Deaths: • Catullus (c.84 BC-c.54 BC)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’Edmond Duranty (Portrait of Edmond Duranty) 1879 Gouache with pastel enlivenment on linen, 100 x 100.4 cm Burrell Collection, Glasgow See also: • Duranty, Edmond (1833-1880)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix (Homage to Delacroix) 1864 Oil on canvas, 160 x 250 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Seated: 1. Edmond Duranty (1833-1880) 2. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) 3. Jules Champfleury (1821-1889) 4. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) Standing: 5. Louis Cordier…

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Édouard Manet 1867 Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 90 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Finely dressed and carrying an elegant walking stick, influential French artist Édouard Manet appears before a stark background evocative of his own paintings as…

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Madame Brunet (Portrait of Madame Brunet) c.1860–1863, reworked by 1867 Oil on canvas, 132.4 x 100 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles This portrait’s bold brushwork, stark contrasts of light and dark, and frank presentation of the sitter…

(1819–1880) Jacob Offenbach “Le Petit Mozart des Champs-Élysées” Works: • Cancan • La Belle Hélène (1864) • La Fille du tambour-major (1879) • La Grande-duchesse de Gérolstein (1867) • La Périchole (1868) • La Vie parisienne (1866) • Les Contes…

(1811–1872) Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier “Le bon Théo” Works: • Émaux et camées (1852) ◊ Enamels and Cameos (English) • La Comédie de la mort (1838) • Le Capitaine Fracasse (1863) ◊ Captain Fracasse (English) • Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) • Ménagerie intime (1869) ◊ My Private Menagerie (English)…

(1821–1889) Jules François Félix Husson Works: • Les chats (1869) • Richard Wagner (1860) Champfleury in Art: Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Atelier du peintre 1854–1855 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Musique…

86 BC

54 BC

Portrait d’Edmond Duranty (1879)

Édouard Manet (1867)

Jacques Offenbach

Théophile Gautier

Champfleury

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