Tag: Normandie

Villerville (France)

Villerville in Art: Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Plage à marée basse c.1850 / c.1878 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam     See also: • Cities | France | Normandie

Fort Samson, Grandcamp (1885)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Fort Samson, Grandcamp 1885 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Grandcamp-Maisy (France) | Normandie

Grandcamp-Maisy (France)

Grandcamp in Art: Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Fort Samson, Grandcamp 1885 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg     See also: • Cities | Normandie | France

Route à Wargemont (1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Route à Wargemont (Road at Wargemont) 1879 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 100 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Liquid colors in glowing, gem-like tones glide into each other, blurring contours, in one of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s most remarkable…

Plage en Normandie (c.1872-1875)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Plage en Normandie (Beach in Normandy) c.1872–1875 Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 90.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Towering, sheer cliffs loom to our left, over a sunny beach scattered with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The…

Les Roches Noires à Trouville (1865-1866)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les Roches Noires à Trouville (The Black Rocks at Trouville) 1865–1866 Oil on canvas, 50 × 61 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We stand on a beach lined with black rocks and boulders looking out onto the water…

Le petit-déjeuner à Pont-l’Evêque (1930)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Le petit-déjeuner à Pont-l’Evêque (Breakfast in Pont-l’Evêque) 1930 Oil on board laid down on cradled panel, 75.5 x 101.2 cm Private collection The present work depicts a lively breakfast conversation in the home of Jean Laroche. Laroche made…

Jean Laroche

(1921–2010) Jean Joseph Louis Laroche Jean Laroche in Art: Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Le petit-déjeuner à Pont-l’Evêque 1930 Private collection   Born July 3 1921 Nantes (France) Died August 21 2010 Nantes (France) Occupation Poet Writer

Port-en-Bessin, avant-port, marée basse (1888)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Port-en-Bessin, avant-port, marée basse (Port-en-Bessin: The Outer Harbor, Low Tide) 1888 Oil on canvas, 66 x 82 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Port-en-Bessin, l’avant-port, marée basse 1888 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis     See also: • Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (France)