Tag: France

Buste de Sarah Bernhardt (1895)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Buste de Sarah Bernhardt (Bust of Sarah Bernhardt) 1895 Patinated plaster, height 68.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)

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Brest (France)

Brest in Art: Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Port de Brest avec des frégates 1872 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford     See also: • Bretagne | Cities | France

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Effet coucher de soleil: le rivage à Trouville (c.1866)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Effet coucher de soleil: le rivage à Trouville (Sunset Effect: The Shore at Trouville) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 101.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In the mid-1860s, Courbet visited the fashionable resort of Trouville on the Normandy…

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Alone with the Tide (1861)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Alone with the Tide (Coast of Brittany) 1861 Oil on canvas, 87.3 x 115.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted this seascape in Brittany, on the northwest coast of France. He focused on…

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Les Baigneuses (1854)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Les Baigneuses (Bathers) 1854 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 79.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford At the height of his career, Eugène Delacroix was challenged by a patron in 1854 to paint a scene of female bathers in a forest…

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Maya Widmaier-Picasso

(1935–2022) María de la Concepción “Maya” Widmaier-Picasso Maya in Art: Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Maya à la poupée 1938 Musée Picasso, Paris   Born September 5 1935 Boulogne-Billancourt (France) Died December 20 2022 Paris (France) Father Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Mother Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909-1977) Occupation Art…

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