Tag: France

Vers, Lot (France)

Vers in Art: Derain, André (1880-1954) L’église de Vers 1912 National Museum Wales, Cardiff     See also: • Cities | France

Don Quichotte lisant (1865-1867)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Don Quichotte lisant (Don Quixote reading) 1865–1867 Oil on canvas, 82.2 x 65 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Compare: Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Don Quichotte et Sancho Panza c.1855 National Gallery, London     Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Don Quichotte et Sancho Panza…

Matinée sur l’Oise, Auvers (1856)

Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Matinée sur l’Oise, Auvers (Morning on the Oise, Auvers) 1856 Oil on board, 20.8 x 41.9 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)

Beatrice Bouvet (1864)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Beatrice Bouvet (born c.1861) 1864 Oil on canvas, 91.9 x 73.2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The Salins industrialist Alfred Bouvet purchased two Courbet landscapes and commisioned this portrait of his daughter, then aged three. She is holding…

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…