Tag: Paris

Portrait de femme (c.1895)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) c.1895 Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 105.5 cm Musée Picasso, Paris   Brassaï, photo of Picasso in his studio at 23 rue La Boétie, standing in front of Rousseau’s Portrait of a…

Moi-même, Portrait-paysage (1890)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Moi-même, Portrait-paysage (Myself, Portrait-Landscape) 1890 Oil on canvas, 146 x 113 cm National Gallery, Prague His today greatly renowned Myself: Portrait – Landscape of 1890 depicts the then new way of the artist’s perception and reflects the artistic confidence…

La Tour Eiffel (c.1898)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Tour Eiffel (The Eiffel Tower) c.1898 Oil on canvas, 77.2 x 52.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston See also: • Tour Eiffel (Paris)

Gustave Courtois

(1853–1923) Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois The artist’s works: Madame Gautreau 1891 Oil on canvas, 106 x 58.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Born May 18 1853 Pusey (France) Died November 25 1923 Paris (France) Occupation Painter

Jardin des Tuileries (Paris)

Created: 1564 Location: Place de la Concorde, 75001 Paris Jardin des Tuileries in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Enfants au Jardin des Tuileries c.1861–1862 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Musique aux Tuileries 1862 National Gallery, London     See…

Antonio de La Gandara

(1861–1917) Antoine Henri Pierre de La Gandara The artist’s works: Femme assise 1894 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Étude de femme 1895 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Madame Pierre Gautreau 1897 Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston Born December 16 1861 Paris (France) Died June…

La muse inspirant le poète (1909)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La muse inspirant le poète (The Muse Inspiring the Poet) 1909 Oil on canvas, 146.2 x 96.9 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel The portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire and his partner, the painter Marie Laurencin, is one of the most famous…

Jardin du Luxembourg, Monument de Chopin (1909)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Jardin du Luxembourg, Monument de Chopin (Luxembourg Gardens, Monument to Chopin) 1909 Oil on canvas, 38 x 47 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Chopin, Frédéric | Jardin du Luxembourg | Monument de Chopin

La Seine à Meudon (1897-1905)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Seine à Meudon (Outskirts of Paris) 1897–1905 Oil on fabric, 37.8 x 45.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Rousseau once said to Picasso: “We are the two greatest artists of this era, you in the Egyptian style,…

Le Navire dans la tempête (c.1899)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Le Navire dans la tempête (Boat in the Storm) c.1899 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Was it the appeal of the voyage that prompted Rousseau to paint this ship? Except that this trip…