Monthly Archives: March 2012

Le Corsage Rayé by Jean-Édouard Vuillard

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Today I am featuring a work by the French painter and printmaker, Jean-Édouard Vuillard.  Vuillard was born in 1868 in Cuiseaux, a commune in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.  His father was a retired sea captain and his … Continue reading →

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Susanna at her Bath by Francesco Hayez

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

For an artist to have two favourite subjects for his paintings, biblical stories and female nudity, one would have thought combining the two would be somewhat difficult, if not risky.  However my featured artist today, the leading Romantic painter and … Continue reading →

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Ruth in Boaz’s Field by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

Today I am returning to a biblical work of art and one which I saw at the National Gallery in London a fortnight ago, and like a number of paintings I have recently reviewed, it was hanging in Room 41.  … Continue reading →

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Madame Hector France (Portrait of H.F.) by Henri Edmond Cross

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

Today I want to look at the life of Delacroix and a couple of his paintings.  However I am not talking about Eugène Delacroix but the artist Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix who was born in Douai a commune in the Nord département … Continue reading →

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Mr and Mrs Edwin Edwards by Henri Fantin-Latour

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Who should be my next featured artist and what the next featured painting should be are the decisions I have to make each day.    Often I will make my choice when I flick through one of my art books or … Continue reading →

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Music in the Tuileries Gardens by Édouard Manet

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

In my last blog I looked at the painting Afternoon at the Tuileries Garden by Adolph Menzel which he completed in 1867.  He had visited Paris that year and attended the second Exposition Universelle and it was during this stay … Continue reading →

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Afternoon at the Tuileries Garden by Adolph Menzel

Posted on March 17, 2012 by

The featured artist in My Daily Art Display today is German and is looked upon, along with the artist I featured in my previous blog, Caspar David Friedrich, as one of the most famous and most successful German artists of … Continue reading →

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Winter Landscapes by Caspar David Friedrich

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

When I visited the National Gallery in London last week I knew I only had an hour to spare so decided to try and sensibly limit what I wanted to see rather than rush around trying to see as much … Continue reading →

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The Large Bathers by Paul Cézanne

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

Paul Cezanne was born on January 19, 1839, in Aix-en-Provence.   His father, Louis Auguste Cézanne was the co-founder of a banking firm and Cézanne was brought up in a wealthy and prosperous environment which eventually, on his mother’s death in … Continue reading →

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The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Johan Zoffany (part 2)

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

Thomas Beckford, the celebrated English art collector and novelist, wrote of the Tribuna of the Uffizi: ”…I fell into a delightful delirium which none but souls like us experience, and unable to check my rapture flew madly from bust to … Continue reading →

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