Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Troubadour (The Troubadour) 1868–1873 Oil on fabric, 83.6 x 56.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Daumier was called the “Michelangelo of caricature” and especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.…
Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Le chêne et le roseau (The Oak Tree and the Reed) c.1873 Wash and graphite on paper, 29.3 x 23 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Oak Tree and the Reed illustrates the fable of the same…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Étang à Ville-d’Avray (Pond at Ville-d’Avray) late 1860s Oil on fabric, 58.1 x 99.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The dreamlike quality of the painting reflects Corot’s desire to reproduce the “first Impression” of the landscape. Corot…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Vue panoramique sur les Alpes, Les Dents du Midi (Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi) 1877 Oil on fabric, 151.2 x 210.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This late, unfinished painting reveals some of…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Les Fables de La Fontaine: Le Cerf et la Vigne (The Fables of La Fontaine: The Deer and the Vine) 1927–1930 Etching and roulette Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-1695)
(1621–1695) Tombe de Jean de La Fontaine (cimetière du Père Lachaise, division 25). Works: • Elektitaj fabloj de J. de La Fontaine (Esperanto) • Fables de La Fontaine (French) • Fables of La Fontaine (English) • Tales and Novels of…
Les amants de Montparnasse (The Lovers of Montparnasse) Director: Jacques Becker Producer: Sandro Pallavicini Screenplay: Jacques Becker Based on: Les Montparnos by Michel-Georges Michel Genre: Biography | Drama | Romantic Music: Paul Misraki Country: France | Italia Language: French Studio: Franco London Films Release…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La tour des pigeons à Bellevue (The Pigeon Tower at Bellevue) 1890 Oil on fabric, 95.5 x 113 x 7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Cézanne’s method of compressing space and simplifying forms into flattened, geometric shapes…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Paul Cézanne 1874 Etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Compare: Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Portrait de Cézanne 1874 National Gallery, London See also: • Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906)
