Tag: France

Le melon (c.1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le melon (The Melon) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 46.67 × 56.52 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le melon c.1880 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne    

Poires (1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Poires (Pears) 1880 Oil on canvas, 19.05 × 24.13 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two green pears lit from the upper right sit on a pale blue tabletop or ledge against a dark background in this horizontal…

Fleurs dans un vase de cristal (c.1882)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Fleurs dans un vase de cristal (Flowers in a Crystal Vase) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 32.7 x 24.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A bouquet of cut flowers in a clear glass vase nearly fills this vertical…

Copie de mémoire de l’Erasmus de Holbein

Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Copie de mémoire de l’Erasmus de Holbein (Memory Copy of Holbein’s Erasmus) s.d. Oil on wood, 28.3 x 22.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus writing 1528 Musée du Louvre, Paris    …

Deux femmes (1922)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Deux femmes (Two Women) 1922 Oil on canvas, 90.8 x 58.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Fernand Léger originated a distinct cubist style in the twentieth century. In the early 1920s he both embraced and influenced the…

Henri Rochefort (1880)

Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Henri Rochefort 1880 Drypoint on laid paper, 27.9 x 36.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Rochefort, Victor Henri (1831-1913)