Tag: Art

Les Collettes (Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Built: 1907 Location: 19 Chemin des Collettes, 06800 Cagnes-sur-Mer Collection: • Musée Renoir Renoir spent here the last years of his life. Reconstruction of Renoir’s studio. The Renoir family home is a neo-Provençal building designed by the architect Jules Febvre in…

Romaine Lacaux (1864)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Romaine Lacaux 1864 Oil on fabric, 81.3 x 65 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This painting may be Renoir‘s earliest signed canvas. Its sensitive display of color and light communicates an ideal of delicate, youthful beauty. The luminous…

Claude Monet

(1840–1926) Oscar-Claude Monet The artist’s works: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s No date Quotes: • Claude Monet: Quotations See also: • Maison et Jardins de Claude Monet (Giverny) Monet in Art: Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) L’ambulance improvisée 1865 Musée d’Orsay, Paris    …

Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford)

Established: 1844 Location: 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut Website: https://www.thewadsworth.org/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also: •…

Monet peignant dans son jardin à Argenteuil (1873)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Monet peignant dans son jardin à Argenteuil (Monet painting in his garden at Argenteuil) 1873 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 59.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In the summer of 1873, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was staying with his friend Claude Monet…

Les Fiancés (c.1868)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Fiancés, dit Le Ménage Sisley (A Couple) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 105 x 75 cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne Probably we shall never establish beyond doubt the identity of the lady depicted in the painting. For a long…

Fernando el Católico (c.1848)

Montañés y Pérez, Bernardino (1825-1893) Fernando el Católico c.1848 Oil on canvas, 225 x 141 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Ferdinand II of Aragon, called the Catholic (1452-1516). The Chronological Series of the Kings of Spain was a museum project planned…

Bernardino Montañés y Pérez

(1825–1893) The artist’s works: Fernando el Católico c.1848 Museo del Prado, Madrid Born May 20 1825 Zaragoza (España) Died January 6 1893 Zaragoza (España) Occupation Painter Professor