Tag: Art

Alice Legouvé

Alice in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Femme à l’ombrelle 1872 Private collection     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Partie de Croquet 1873 Städel Museum, Frankfurt     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) En bateau 1874 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le…

Autoportrait (1858)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1858 Oil on canvas, 40.7 x 32.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Le Port d’Anvers (1906)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Port d’Anvers (The Port of Antwerp) 1906 Oil on canvas, 49.8 x 61.2 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Georges Braque worked in several distinct styles during his career; this painting is characteristic of his Fauve period. In…

Samuel-Jean Pozzi

(1846–1918) Pozzi in Art: Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Dr. Pozzi at Home 1881 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles   Born October 3 1846 Bergerac (France) Died June 13 1918 Paris (France) Cause of death Murdered Lover Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) Occupation Art collector Physician Title…

Le Port d’Anvers (1905)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Port d’Anvers (Antwerp Harbor) 1905 Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 61 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel See also: • Antwerp (Belgium)

Violon, Mozart Kubelick (1912)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Violon, Mozart Kubelick (Violin, Mozart Kubelick) 1912 Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 61 cm Private collection, Basel © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Punning and multivalent references delighted Cubist artists and their literary friends. Any word…

La Madeleine au miroir (c.1635-1640)

La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Madeleine au miroir, La Madeleine pénitente (Magdalene at a Mirror, The Repentant Magdalen) c.1635–1640 Oil on canvas, 113 × 92.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington According to the tenets of the 17th–century Catholic church, Mary…

Georges de La Tour

(1593–1652) The artist’s works: La Diseuse de bonne aventure probably 1630s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York La Madeleine au miroir c.1635–1640 National Gallery of Art, Washington La Madeleine aux deux flammes c.1640 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Les Larmes de saint Pierre…

Violon et palette (1909)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Violon et palette (Violin and palette) 1909 Oil on canvas, 91.7 x 42.8 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York When Georges Braque abandoned a bright Fauve palette and traditional perspective in 1908, it was the inspiration of Paul Cézanne’s geometrized…

Benvenuto Cellini

(1500–1571) The artist’s works: Saliera 1540–1543 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna La nymphe de Fontainebleau 1542–1543 Musée du Louvre, Paris Perseo con la testa di Medusa 1545–1554 Piazza della Signoria, Firenze Bindo Altoviti 1549 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Works: • Autobiography (English) • The treatises…