Deaths: • Mallarmé, Stéphane (1842-1898) See also: • Cities | France
Stéphane Mallarmé
(1842–1898) Étienne Mallarmé Works: • Pages (1891) Translations: • Le Corbeau d’Edgar Poe (1875) Edgar Allan Poe‘s The Raven translated into French, illustrated by Édouard Manet. Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Illustration to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 1875 Metropolitan Museum of…
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Charles Baudelaire
(1821–1867) Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Works: • Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) • The Flowers of Evil (English) Quotes: • Charles Baudelaire: Quotations Baudelaire in Art: Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Portrait de Baudelaire s.d. Musée du Louvre, Paris Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Atelier du peintre 1854–1855 Musée…
Grasse (France)
Births: • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Deaths: • Piaf, Édith (1915-1963) See also: • Cities | France
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…
Bourges (France)
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…
Self-Portrait or Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (1493)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Self-Portrait or Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle 1493 Parchment glued on canvas, 56.5 x 44.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Dürer‘s first painted self-portrait, possibly an engagement portrait – the thistle or panicaut (eryngium), which Dürer…