Tag: 1860

Femme nue debout (1860-1861)

Nadar (1820-1910) Femme nue debout (Standing Female Nude) 1860–1861 Salted paper print from glass negative, 20.2 x 13.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Famed for his portraits of writers, artists, and left-wing politicians, Nadar is known to have photographed only…

Diogène (1860)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Diogène (Diogenes) 1860 Oil on canvas, 74.5 x 101 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Athens (Greece) | Diogenes (c.404 BC-c.323 BC)

James Ensor

(1860–1949) James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor The artist’s works: Marine grise 1880 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp L’après-midi à Ostende 1881 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp La Dame en détresse 1882 Musée d’Orsay, Paris La mangeuse d’huîtres 1882 Koninklijk Museum voor…

Les Premiers pas (c.1859-1866)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Les Premiers pas (First Steps) c.1859–1866 Black chalk and pastel on wove paper, 29.5 x 45.9 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland At the time this drawing was made, many critics disparaged Millet‘s depictions of peasants as politically…

Dantis Amor (1860)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Dantis Amor (Dante’s Love) 1860 Oil on mahogany, 74.9 x 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London «L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.» (Love that moves the sun and the other stars). Dante, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145. This…

Une laveuse au Quai d’Anjou (c.1860)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Une laveuse au Quai d’Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d’Anjou) c.1860 Oil on wood, 28.57 x 19.68 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Through light and shadow, Honoré Daumier empathetically responded to the effects of increasing industrialization in…

Anton Chekhov

(1860–1904) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Works: • Avioliittoja (Finnish) • Der Bär (German) • Der persische Orden und andere Grotesken (German) • Ein Heiratsantrag (German) • Eine langweilige Geschichte (German) • Eno Vanja (Finnish) • Ivanoff (English) • Kaksikymmentä (Finnish) •…