Tag: France

Femme en costume de ville (c.1879)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Femme en costume de ville (Woman in Street Clothes, Portrait of Ellen Andrée) c.1879 Pastel on green-grey paper, 48.5 × 42 cm Private collection See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925)

Émile Zola (1868)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Émile Zola 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Emile Zola, Cézanne‘s boyhood friend, showed an early interest in painting. He was particularly interested in the artists rejected by the official critics. In 1866,…

La Parisienne (1883)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Parisienne (A Parisian Lady) 1883 Oil on canvas, 192 x 125 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm This painting shows the actress Ellen André as a Parisienne, who lived and moved in the modern commercial city. Socially, she was often a…

Au café (1878)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Au café (At the café) 1878 Pastel on canvas, 77 x 83 cm Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur This is the left side of a larger painting. The right half, titled Coin d’un café-concert, is in the National Gallery, London. Right…

Chez le Père Lathuille (1879)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Chez le Père Lathuille (At Père Lathuille’s) 1879 Oil on canvas, 92 x 112 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai, Tournai “The modern life I spoke of, here it is” (Joris-Karl Huysmans) With Édouard Manet, painting enters modernity.…

Père Lathuille (Paris)

Founded: 1765 In 1906 it became “Kursaal” Address: 7 Avenue de Clichy, 75017 Paris Le père Lathuille today. Père Lathuille advertising. Père Lathuille in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Chez le Père Lathuille 1879 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai     See also: •…

La fin du déjeuner (1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La fin du déjeuner (After the Luncheon) 1879 Oil on canvas, 101 x 81 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt In the arbour of a Parisian restaurant, an abundant meal is drawing to a close. The actress Ellen Andrée has taken…

Café de la Nouvelle Athènes (Paris)

Opened: 1871 Closed: 2004 Address: 9 Place Pigalle, 75009 Paris, France The Café de la Nouvelle Athènes in Art: Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe 1875–1876 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Prune c.1877 National Gallery of Art, Washington…

La Prune (c.1877)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Prune (Plum Brandy) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 50.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman with light skin sits facing us across a marble-topped table in a café in this vertical painting. Her body…