Tag: France

Limoges (France)

Museums: • Musée des Beaux-Arts de Limoges, Palais de l’Evêché: 1 Place de l’Evêché, 87000 Limoges Births: • Demarsy, Jeanne (1865-1937) • Haviland, Frank Burty (1886-1971) • Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) See also: • Cities | France

Midi de la France

Le Midi in Art: Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) La robe rose 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) Vue de village 1868 Musée Fabre, Montpellier     Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Canal du Midi 1898 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid     Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Fruits du Midi…

Vergine delle rocce (c.1483-1486)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Vergine delle rocce (The Virgin of the Rocks) c.1483–1486 Oil on wood transferred to canvas 199.5 x 122 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting is mentioned for the first time in 1625 at the Château de Fontainebleau.…

John Singer Sargent

(1856–1925) The artist’s works: Wineglasses probably 1875 National Gallery, London En route pour la pêche 1878 National Gallery of Art, Washington A Street in Venice c.1880–1882 Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Fumée d’ambre gris 1880 Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Venetian Bead Stringers 1880 or 1882 Buffalo AKG…

La Tamise à Westminster (c.1871)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Tamise à Westminster (The Thames at Westminster) c.1871 Oil on canvas, 47 x 73 cm National Gallery, London Monet arrived in London in September 1870, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, and stayed until May…

Jardin à Sainte-Adresse (1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jardin à Sainte-Adresse (Garden at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 98.1 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet spent the summer of 1867 with his family at Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort near Le Havre. It was…

I Raro te Oviri (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) I Raro te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) 1891 Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 90.8 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In his mid-thirties, Paul Gauguin abandoned his life as a stockbroker to become an artist. He sought to…