(1840–1897) Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet Daudet’s Grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Windmill of Alphonse Daudet. Works: • Artists’ Wives (English) • Cartas de mi molino (Spanish) • Contes de lundi (French) • Fromont and Risler (English) • Jack (English)…
(1797–1828) Franz Peter Schubert Works: • Complete Symphonies • Fantasie in f Moll (D 940) • Impromptus (1827) • Piano sonata (D.960) • Sérénade, Le Chant du cygne (1828) Born January 31 1797 Himmelpfortgrund, now Vienna (Austria) Died November 19 1828…
(1797–1848) Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti Works: • Anna Bolena (1830) • Don Pasquale (1843) • La Favorite (1840) • La Fille du régiment (1840) • L’elisir d’amore (1832) • Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) • Lucrezia Borgia (1833) • Maria Stuarda…
(c.1820-c.1862) Jeanne Duval, Jeanne Prosper or Jeanne Lemer Jeanne Duval by Nadar (c.1860). Jeanne Duval in a portrait by Baudelaire (1869). Jeanne Duval by Baudelaire. Jeanne Duval in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Femme à l’éventail 1862 Museum of Fine…
(1810–1856) Robert Alexander Schumann Works: • Carnaval (1834-1835) • Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 (1850) • Davidsbündlertänze (1837) • Dichterliebe “A Poet’s Love” (1840) • Fantasie in C, Op.17 (1839) • Kreisleriana (1838) • Piano Concerto in A…
(1832–1883) The artist’s works: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s No date Manet in Art: Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) L’Atelier de la rue Condamine 1870 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Manet et son chevalet 1868–1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bracquemond,…
(1821–1867) Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Works: • Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) • The Flowers of Evil (English) Quotes: • Charles Baudelaire: Quotations Baudelaire in Art: Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Portrait de Baudelaire s.d. Musée du Louvre, Paris Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Atelier du peintre 1854–1855 Musée…
(1850–1893) Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant Works: ◊ A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales (English) ◊ Bel Ami (English) • Boule de Suif (French) • Clair de Lune (French) • Contes de la Becasse (French) • Contes du jour et de la nuit…
(1641–1711) The artist’s works: The Institution of the Eucharist 1664–1665 Musée du Louvre, Paris Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas 1668 Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp Aeneas and the Sibyl c.1670 National Gallery of Art, Washington Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus c.1670…
(1828–1910) Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Works: • A Confession (English) ◊ Ma confession (French) • A Critical Essay on Shakespeare (English) • A Letter to a Hindu (English) • A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories (English) • Anna Karenina (English) ◊ Anna Karenina (Dutch) ◊ Anna…