Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Vue de Médinet el-Fayoum (View of Medinet El-Fayoum) c.1868–1870 Oil on wood, 38 x 56 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was the most publicly honored and financially successful French artist of the second half of…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix c.1864–1870 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 66 cm Tate Britain, London Dante Gabriel Rossetti identified closely with the medieval poet Dante Alighieri. Rossetti saw his own despair at the death of his wife, the artist and…
Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Les Demoiselles de Village (Young Ladies of the Village) 1866–1870 Etching on laid paper, 23.8 x 33.5 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Compare: Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Jeunes femmes du village 1851–1852 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York …
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Paysage du Jura (Jura Landscape) 1869 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 73.3 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Départ du vapeur de Folkestone (The Folkestone Boat, Boulogne) c.1868–1872 Oil on canvas, 60 x 73.5 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This image of the steam ferry that carried passengers from Boulogne to Folkestone, on the Channel…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La soeur de l’artiste à la fenêtre (The Artist’s Sister at a Window) 1869 Oil on canvas, 54.8 x 46.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with pale peach skin and light brown hair sits…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Marseille, porte de l’Orient (Marseilles, Gateway to the Orient) c.1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 98.42 x 146.36 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington See also: • Marseille (France)
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Troubadour (The Troubadour) 1868–1873 Oil on fabric, 83.6 x 56.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Daumier was called the “Michelangelo of caricature” and especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.…
Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Portrait de Mlle Quivoron (Portrait of Mlle Quivoron) 1860–1914 Etching, drypoint, 39 × 26.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is a portrait of Louise, Marie Bracquemond‘s sister, who lived with the artist and her husband…
Astruc, Zacharie (1833-1907) Paysage avec chariot et meules de foin (Landscape with Wagon and Haystacks) c.1869–1870 Watercolor, 13.6 x 16.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York