Tag: Barbizon

Meules de foin, Automne (c.1874)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Meules de foin, Automne (Haystacks: Autumn) c.1874 Oil on canvas, 85.1 x 110.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture is from a series depicting the four seasons commissioned in 1868 by the industrialist Frédéric Hartmann.…

Jean-François Millet

(1814–1875) The artist’s works: La bergère assise 1840–1850 National Museum Wales, Cardiff Leconte de Lisle c.1840–1841 National Gallery of Art, Washington Femme nue couchée 1844–1845 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Le Repos de Diane c.1845 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Portrait d’homme c.1845…

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

(1841–1919) The artist’s works: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s No date Quotes: • Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Quotations See also: • Château de Wargemont (Derchigny) • Les Collettes (Cagnes-sur-Mer) • Maison de Renoir (Essoyes) • Restaurant Fournaise (Chatou) Renoir in Art: Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Portrait de Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1867 Musée d’Orsay, Paris…

Barbizon (France)

Barbizon in Art: Derain, André (1880-1954) Paysage près de Barbizon c.1922 Tate Britain, London     Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Paysage d’automne avec un troupeau de dindes 1872–1873 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Meules de foin, Automne c.1874 Metropolitan…

Romaine Lacaux

Romaine Lacaux in Art: Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Romaine Lacaux 1864 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland    

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…