Tag: 1850

Saltimbanques errantes (1847-1850)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Saltimbanques errantes (Wandering Saltimbanques) 1847–1850 Oil on wood, 32.6 x 24.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington An older man, a woman, and a child who holds a chair upside-down on his head stand near each other in…

Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850–1894) Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson Works: • Aarresaari (Finnish) • A Child’s Garden of Verses (English) • A Christmas Sermon (English) • A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (English) • A Lowden Sabbath Morn (English) •…

Patio porteño en 1850 (c.1860)

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Patio porteño en 1850 (Courtyard in Buenos Aires in 1850) c.1860 Oil on copper, 30.2 x 43 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires See also: • Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Monte Pincio, Rome (1840-1850)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Monte Pincio, Rome 1840–1850 Oil on canvas, 27 x 40.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Pincio | Roma (Italia) | Trinità dei Monti

Dante et Virgile (1850)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Dante et Virgile (Dante and Virgil) 1850 Oil on canvas, 280.5 x 225.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (70 BC-19 BC)

Guy de Maupassant

(1850–1893) Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant Works: ◊ A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales (English) ◊ Bel Ami (English) • Boule de Suif (French) • Clair de Lune (French) • Contes de la Becasse (French) • Contes du jour et de la nuit…

Honoré de Balzac

(1799–1850) Honoré de Balzac, né Honoré Balzac Works: ◊ A Daughter of Eve (English) ◊ A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (English) ◊ A Drama on the Seashore (English) ◊ A Man of Business (English) ◊ A Passion in the Desert (English) ◊ A Prince of Bohemia…