Tag: France

Portrait d’Antonin Proust (1881)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’Antonin Proust (Portrait of Antonin Proust) 1881 Oil on canvas, 183 x 110.5 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Antonin Proust was a key figure in artistic life under the Third Republic. Born in Niort in 1832, he studied…

Antonin Proust (1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Antonin Proust 1880 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 95.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo This portrait was painted in a single sitting using unprepared canvas. Exhibited at the 1880 Paris Salon, it was praised by some for…

La Chanteuse de rue (c.1862)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Chanteuse de rue (Street Singer) c.1862 Oil on canvas, 171.1 x 105.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Awkwardly clutching her guitar and a parcel of cherries, a street musician hitches up her skirt to facilitate her…

Victorine Meurent (c.1862)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Victorine Meurent c.1862 Oil on canvas, 42.9 x 43.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Victorine-Louise Meurent (1844-1927) was a professional artist’s model and painter in her own right, exhibiting work at the Paris Salon in 1876 and…

Mlle V. en costume d’espada (1862)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Mlle V. en costume d’espada (Mademoiselle V. in the Costume of an Espada) 1862 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 127.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet depicted model Victorine Meurent (1844–1927) in the guise of a…

Illustration to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1875)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Illustration to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (Open Here I Flung the Shutter) 1875 Lithograph on laid (Hollande) paper, 54.2 x 35 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Translator: Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898): Le Corbeau…

Château du Clos Lucé (Amboise)

Manoir du Cloux Chastelet du Cloux Built: middle of the fifteenth century Address: 2 Rue du Clos Lucé, 37400 Amboise, France Website: https://vinci-closluce.com/en Deaths: • Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) See also: • Amboise (France) | Castles | François I, King of France (1494-1547) | Marguerite de…

Nice (France)

.Nice in Art: Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur à Nice c.1919 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis     Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur à Nice 1919–1920 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago     Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Les Persiennes 1919 Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia     Matisse,…