Tag: Whistler

Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water (1872)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water 1872 Oil on canvas, 51 × 76.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 1870s James McNeill Whistler took a radical step toward abstraction with his Nocturnes series. In…

Sir Walter Scott

(1771–1832) Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot Works: • Guy Mannering (English) • Ivanhoe (English) • Kenilworth (English) • Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (English) • Marmion (English) • Old Mortality (English) • Quentin Durward (English) • Rob Roy…

Le Bateaux de pêche (1865)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Bateaux de pêche (The Fishing Boat) 1865 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet painted this work during an intensely productive visit to Trouville with James McNeill Whistler from…

Hommage à Delacroix (1864)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix (Homage to Delacroix) 1864 Oil on canvas, 160 x 250 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Seated: 1. Edmond Duranty (1833-1880) 2. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) 3. Jules Champfleury (1821-1889) 4. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) Standing: 5. Louis Cordier…

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

(1834–1903) The artist’s works: At the Piano 1858–1859 Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati Billingsgate 1859 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Fantin-Latour drawing 1859 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Portrait of the Artist 1859 Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Lime Burner 1859 Victoria and Albert Museum, London…

Gustave Courbet

(1819–1877) Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet The artist’s works: Juliette Courbet à l’âge de dix ans c.1841 Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Courbet au chien noir 1842–1844 Petit Palais, Paris Portrait de Juliette Courbet 1844 Petit Palais, Paris Portrait d’une jeune femme…

Louis Cordier

(1823-?) Cordier in Art: Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris   Occupation Painter

Alphonse Legros

(1837–1911) The artist’s works: Portrait de l’artiste s.d. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Cupidon et Psyché exhibited 1867 Tate Britain, London Répétition du service c.1870 Tate Britain, London Portrait de femme 1875 National Gallery of Art, Washington Extase poétique 1876 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Tête d’homme…