Tag: France

Folies Bergère (Paris)

Established: 1869 Location: 32 rue Richer, 9e arrondissement de Paris Website: https://www.foliesbergere.com/ Folies Bergère in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère 1878 Brooklyn Museum, New York     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Un bar aux Folies Bergère 1882 Courtauld Institute, London  …

Un bar aux Folies Bergère (1882)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Un bar aux Folies Bergère (A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres) 1882 Oil on canvas, 96 x 130 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This celebrated work is Édouard Manet’s last major painting, completed a year before he died, and exhibited in 1882 at…

La loge (1874)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841–1919) La loge (The Theater Box) 1874 Oil on canvas, 80 x 63.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Pierre-Auguste Renoir showed La Loge (The Theatre Box)  at the first Impressionist group exhibition in Paris in 1874. The painting was designed make an impact there.…

Paris (France)

Districts: • Batignolles • Montparnasse • Montmartre • Passy • Petit Montrouge Museums: • Musée Carnavalet: 16 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75003 Paris • Musée d’Orsay: Rue de Lille 75343 • Musée de l’Orangerie: Jardin des Tuileries,  75001 Paris • Musée du Louvre: 99, rue de…

Musée Marmottan Monet (Paris)

Established: 1934 Location: 2, rue Louis Boilly, Paris XVIe Website: https://www.marmottan.fr/ Collection: • Monet, Claude (1840-1926): En promenade près d’Argenteuil (1875) • Monet, Claude (1840-1926): Impression, soleil levant (1872) • Monet, Claude (1840-1926): Jean Monet (1880) • Monet, Claude (1840-1926): Michel Monet au chandail…

Impression, soleil levant (1872)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) 1872 Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris A stay at the Hôtel Amirauté in Le Havre around November 1872 provided Monet with the subject of his most famous painting,…

Musée Renoir (Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Opened: 1960 Address: 19 Chemin des Collettes, 06800 Cagnes-sur-Mer Website: https://tourisme.cagnes.fr/musee-renoir/ Collection: • Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919): Coco lisant (1905) • Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919): Jeune femme au puits (c.1886) • Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919): La ferme des Collettes (1915) • Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919): La Laveuse (s.d.) • Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919): Les Cariatides (1909) • Renoir,…

Les Collettes (Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Built: 1907 Address: 19 Chemin des Collettes, 06800 Cagnes-sur-Mer Collection: • Musée Renoir Renoir spent here the last years of his life. Reconstruction of Renoir’s studio. The Renoir family home is a neo-Provençal building designed by the architect Jules Febvre in…

Romaine Lacaux (1864)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Romaine Lacaux 1864 Oil on fabric, 81.3 x 65 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This painting may be Renoir‘s earliest signed canvas. Its sensitive display of color and light communicates an ideal of delicate, youthful beauty. The luminous…

Claude Monet

(1840–1926) Oscar-Claude Monet The artist’s works: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s No date Quotes: • Claude Monet: Quotations See also: • Maison et Jardins de Claude Monet (Giverny) Monet in Art: Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) L’ambulance improvisée 1865 Musée d’Orsay, Paris    …