Tag: France

Scène de plage (c.1869-1870)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Scène de plage (Beach Scene) c.1869–1870 Oil (essence) on paper on canvas, 47.5 × 82.9 cm National Gallery, London A maid combs the hair of a girl who has been swimming; her bathing suit is stretched out on…

La Cheminée, reverse (1905)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Cheminée, reverse (The Mantelpiece, reverse) 1905 Oil on cardboard, 51.4 × 77.5 cm National Gallery, London Obverse: Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Cheminée 1905 National Gallery, London    

La Cheminée (1905)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Cheminée (The Mantelpiece) 1905 Oil on cardboard, 51.4 × 77.5 cm National Gallery, London This picture – a combination of interior scene and still-life painting – shows Vuillard’s room at Château-Rouge in Amfreville, Normandy. His friends Jos and…

Femme assise dans un jardin (1891)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Femme assise dans un jardin (Woman seated in a Garden) 1891 Oil on millboard, 66.7 × 52.8 cm National Gallery, London A young woman is seated in a garden. Although her upper body is turned slightly towards…

Le pont de Sèvres (c.1877)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Le pont de Sèvres (The Bridge at Sèvres) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 38.1 × 46 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Tate. In the early summer of 1877 Sisley moved to Sèvres, a suburb of Paris which…

L’été (before 1873)

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) L’été (Summer) before 1873 Oil on canvas, 43.2 × 62.2 cm National Gallery, London The theme of Puvis de Chavannes’s painting is an old one. Images of summer and harvesting can be found in medieval illuminated manuscripts,…

Le Triomphe de Silène (c.1636)

Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Le Triomphe de Silène (The Triumph of Silenus) c.1636 Oil on canvas, 142.9 × 120.5 cm National Gallery, London This playful scene celebrates Silenus, companion to Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and drunkenness. Silenus, a naked old…

Jour d’été (c.1879)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jour d’été (Summer’s Day) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 75.2 cm National Gallery, London This painting was almost certainly exhibited with the title The Lake in the Bois de Boulogne at the Fifth Impressionist exhibition in April…