Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571) La nymphe de Fontainebleau (The Nymph of Fontainebleau) 1542–1543 Bronze, 205 x 409 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Commissioned by François I and executed in 1542–1543, in the workshop of the Hôtel de Nesle in Paris, with the assistance…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Vue dans la forêt de Fontainebleau (View in the Forest of Fontainebleau) 1855 Oil on canvas, 82 x 102 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam See also: • Forêt de Fontainebleau (France)
(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…
Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) La Ferme à l’entrée du bois (The Farm at the Entrance of the Wood) 1860–1880 Oil on fabric, 28.4 x 40.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Bonheur‘s artistic work led her to pastures, fairs, and even slaughterhouses—unlikely…
(1889–1963) Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau The artist’s works: Festival de musique de Menton 1956 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland La Tour 1959 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Orphée 1960 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Works: • La Danse de Sophocle (French) •…
Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) Étude d’un chien (Study of a Dog) possibly 1860s Oil on canvas, 33.3 x 28.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Bonheur was renowned for her animal paintings. She may have seen the long-eared terrier that is the…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le coucher du soleil (Sunset) c.1881 Oil on panel, 15.2 x 24.8 cm Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol See also: • Forêt de Fontainebleau (France)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Lise, La femme à l’ombrelle (Lise with a Parasol) 1867 Oil on canvas, 184 x 115.5 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen See also: • Forêt de Fontainebleau (France) | Tréhot, Lise (1848-1922)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le chêne Bodmer de la forêt de Fontainebleau (The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest) 1865 Oil on canvas, 96.2 x 129.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Forest of Fontainebleau, south of Paris, became an artistic…
