Tag: France

Jean de La Fontaine

(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…

Montparnasse 19 (1958)

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…

La tour des pigeons à Bellevue (1890)

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…

Paul Cézanne (1874)

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)

Paul Cézanne (1902)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Paul Cézanne 1902 Lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906)

Poulets, gibier à plumes et lièvres (c.1882)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Poulets, gibier à plumes et lièvres (Chickens, Game Birds, and Hares) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 76 x 105 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Caillebotte balanced the notion of the wild with the orderly in this painting, as…

Portrait d’homme (1880)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) 1880 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Among Gustave Caillebotte’s most celebrated works are his views of modern Paris seen from balconies and terraces, a theme…

Villas à Trouville (1884)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Villas à Trouville (Villas at Trouville) 1884 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gustave Caillebotte painted this view of villas at Trouville, a small town on the Normandy coast, using the distinctive…

Le Bain (c.1900)

Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Le Bain (The Bath) c.1900 Brush, ink, chalk and gouache, 59.1 x 44 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Bracquemond drew extensively and promoted the medium as the source of all artistic practice. This drawing relates to Félix…

Le Repos (1879)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le Repos (Rest) 1879 Oil on fabric, 164.5 x 117.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland One of the most celebrated academic painters of his time, Bouguereau underscores the moral virtues of the Italian peasants in this painting…