Tag: Paris

La Première Sortie (1876-1877)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Première Sortie (At the Theatre) 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 65 × 49.5 cm National Gallery, London We seem to be sitting in a box at the theatre, which we share with two young women. But we can’t be…

La Mort de Sardanapale, esquisse (1826-1827)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La Mort de Sardanapale, esquisse (The Death of Sardanapalus, sketch) 1826–1827 Oil on canvas, 81 × 100 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La mort de Sardanapale 1844 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia     Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Mort…

Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge (1879)

Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge 1879 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 59.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Cassatt created a series of theater scenes in the late 1870s, displaying an interest in city nightlife…

Une moderne Olympia (1873-1874)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Une moderne Olympia (A modern Olympia) 1873–1874 Oil on canvas, 46.2 x 55.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Cézanne‘s early works, executed in dark colors, were strongly inspired by those of the Old Masters and by the compositions of Delacroix,…

La sfida delle Pieridi (c.1523-1527)

Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) La sfida delle Pieridi (The Challenge of the Pierides) c.1523–1527 Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 31 x 63 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris A rare mythological subject This small painting represents an episode reported by Ovid in…

Delphine Ramel, Madame Ingres

(1808–1887)   Born December 26 1808 Paris (France) Died May 11 1887 Paris (France) Buried Cimetière du Père Lachaise (Paris) Husband (m.1852) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

Bella au col blanc (1917)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Bella au col blanc (Bella with White Collar) 1917 Oil on linen, 149 x 72 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris The writer Bella Rosenfeld, represented here as a giantess, would be Chagall‘s muse throughout her life. Taking up…

Bella Rosenfeld

(1889–1944) Bella Rosenfeld Chagall Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал Marc, Bella and their daughter Ida, Paris 1924. Bella in Art: Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Bella au col blanc 1917 Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris   Born December 14 1889 Vitebsk (Belarus) Died September 2 1944 Tupper Lake,…

Lydia Cassatt

(1837–1882) Lydia Simpson Cassatt Lydia in Art: Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge 1879 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia     Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Cup of Tea c.1880–1881 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York   Born…