Tag: France

Delphine Ramel, Madame Ingres

(1808–1887)   Born December 26 1808 Paris (France) Died May 11 1887 Paris (France) Buried Cimetière du Père Lachaise (Paris) Husband (m.1852) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

Autoportrait (c.1858)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) c.1858 Oil on canvas, 26.4 x 21.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the beginning of his career, between 1854 and 1861, Fantin-Latour executed a large number of self-portraits in chalk, charcoal, and oil.…

Bella au col blanc (1917)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Bella au col blanc (Bella with White Collar) 1917 Oil on linen, 149 x 72 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris The writer Bella Rosenfeld, represented here as a giantess, would be Chagall‘s muse throughout her life. Taking up…

Bella Rosenfeld

(1889–1944) Bella Rosenfeld Chagall Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал Marc, Bella and their daughter Ida, Paris 1924. Bella in Art: Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Bella au col blanc 1917 Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris   Born December 14 1889 Vitebsk (Belarus) Died September 2 1944 Tupper Lake,…

Lydia Cassatt

(1837–1882) Lydia Simpson Cassatt Lydia in Art: Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Woman in a Loge 1879 Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia     Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Le thé c.1880 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston     Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Cup of Tea c.1880–1881…

Grand Nu (1907-1908)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Grand Nu (Large Nude) 1907–1908 Oil on canvas, 140 × 100 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris [Winter 1907 – June 1908] By virtue of its subject, its dimensions and its audacity, this work constitutes an essential milestone in…

Le citron (c.1935)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le citron (The Lemon) c.1935 Oil on canvas, 27.2 x 41.2 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Le Viaduc de l’Estaque (1907)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Viaduc de l’Estaque (The Viaduct at L’Estaque) 1907 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 80.6 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Between 1906 and 1910, Georges Braque made several trips to the south of France and the port at…

L’iris (1895)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) L’iris (Woman with Iris) 1895 Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Among the most successful academic painters of the late nineteenth century, Bouguereau received numerous official honors from the French art establishment.…

Paysage à la Ciotat (1907)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Paysage à la Ciotat (Landscape in La Ciotat) 1907 Oil on canvas, 51 x 62 cm Private collection Braque’s magnificent depiction of La Ciotat in the south of France is a seminal image of the Fauve revolution at…