Tag: 1880

Nocturne: blue and gold, St. Mark’s, Venice (1880)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Nocturne: blue and gold, St. Mark’s, Venice 1880 Oil on canvas, 75.4 x 90.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Following his bankruptcy in 1879, Whistler spent a year in Venice where he concentrated on etchings and…

Autoportrait (1880-1881)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) 1880–1881 Oil on canvas, 34.7 × 27 cm National Gallery, London Cézanne was about 40 years old when he painted this self portrait in his apartment in Paris around 1880–1. This was a significant period in…

Charles Gounod

(1818–1893) Charles-François Gounod Works: • Faust (1859) • Mireille (1864) • Roméo et Juliette (1867) • Inno e Marcia Pontificale (1869) • Marche funèbre d’une marionnette (1872) • Petite Symphonie (1885) • La Reine de Saba (1862) Gounod in Art:…

Autoportrait en chimère (c.1880)

Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) Autoportrait en chimère (Self-Portrait as a Chimera) c.1880 Bronze, 31.8 x 34.9 x 31.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago French actor and artist Sarah Bernhardt was perhaps the first global superstar, with legions of admirers spread across…

Desdemona’s Death-Song (1878-1880)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Desdemona’s Death-Song 1878–1880 Black chalk over traces of red chalk on two joined sheets of blue-green paper, 127 x 101.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)