Tag: Art

Marine (1870)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Marine 1870 Oil on canvas, 66.4 x 82.9 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Juliette Courbet à l’âge de dix ans (c.1841)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Juliette Courbet à l’âge de dix ans (Juliette Courbet at the age of ten years) c.1841 Oil on canvas, 24.5 x 19 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Simply opening the Grand Palais reference catalog…

Premier deuil (1888)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Premier deuil (The First Mourning) 1888 Oil on canvas, 203 x 250 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires During the last quarter of the 19th Century, every month of May would bring extensive accounts of…

Mignon (1869)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Mignon 1869 Oil on canvas, 100.4 x 81.3 cm Private collection

Séduction (1872)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Séduction (Seduction, The Proposal) 1872 Oil on canvas, 163.5 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The motif of a young man at a window, wooing a woman at her spinning wheel, and the vaguely…

Le lever (1871)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le lever (Young Mother Gazing at Her Child) 1871 Oil on canvas, 142.2 x 102.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This doting mother in picturesque dress and her angelic offspring are two of many such…