Tag: Paris

Café de la Nouvelle Athènes (Paris)

Opened: 1871 Closed: 2004 Address: 9 Place Pigalle, 75009 Paris, France The Café de la Nouvelle Athènes in Art: Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe 1875–1876 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Prune c.1877 National Gallery of Art, Washington…

La Prune (c.1877)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Prune (Plum Brandy) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 50.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman with light skin sits facing us across a marble-topped table in a café in this vertical painting. Her body…

Dans un café (1875-1876)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe (In a Cafe or Absinthe) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 92 x 68.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Unlike his Impressionist friends, Degas was an essentially urban painter, who liked to paint the enclosed…

La lecture (c.1868)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La lecture (The Reading) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 61 x 73.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Koelin-Leenhoff, Léon | Manet, Suzanne

Monsieur et Madame Auguste Manet (1860)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Monsieur et Madame Auguste Manet (Manet’s parents) 1860 Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Fournier, Eugénie Désirée, Mme Auguste Manet | Manet, Auguste

Le citron (1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le citron (The Lemon) 1880 Oil on canvas, 14 x 22 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Proust, Antonin (1832-1905)

Berthe Morisot au bouquet de violettes (1872)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Berthe Morisot au bouquet de violettes (Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets) 1872 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 40.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Manet was profoundly marked by the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune, throughout which he…

Le Fifre (1866)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Fifre (The Fifer) 1866 Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 97 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Manet, who found in a Spanish manner and subject matter an outlet for his own talent, did not visit Spain and the Prado…

Cimetière des Batignolles (Paris)

Opened: 1833 Address: 8 Rue Saint-Just, 75017 Paris, France Burials: • Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896) • Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) See also: • Batignolles | Cemeteries | Paris (France)

Paul Verlaine

(1844–1896) Paul Marie Verlaine Works: • Hombres (French) • Poésies complètes (French) ◊ Poems of Paul Verlaine (English) Verlaine in Art: Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) (?) Paul Verlaine en Troubadour (?) 1868 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas     Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Coin de table 1872 Musée…