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Category Archives: French painters
Victorine Meurent
The painting above, Le Jour des Rameaux or Palm Sunday, is unique in as much as it is the only surviving painting by my featured artist. It was recovered in 2004 and can now be found hanging in the local museum of Colombes, … Continue reading
The Magpie by Claude Monet
Being in a much milder, wetter and windy climate it is always a novelty to see snow except atop distant mountains and for those of you are knee-deep in it, you have my sympathy, as I tend to agree with … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Art display, French painters, Impressionists, Monet, Snowscape
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, Étretat, French painter, Impressionism, Impressionist art, Monet, snowscape, The Magpie by Monet
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Classical Greek Landscape with Girls Sacrificing Their Hair to Diana on the Bank of a River by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
As an artist, he has been spoken of as the father of French Neoclassical landscape painting and an artist, who was for landscape painting what Jaques-Louis David was for history painting, so how can I ignore this eminent and much … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Art display, French painters, Landscape paintings, Valenciennes
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, Classical Greek Landscape with Girls Sacrificing Their Hair to Diana on the Bank of a River by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter, historical landscape painting, Landscape artists, paysage historique, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
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Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun and Marie Antoinette
I had intended this blog to be the concluding look at the life and some of the works of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun but instead I am just concentrating this blog on a couple of the portraits Élisabeth did of … Continue reading
Self Portraiture by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun
Over the next two blogs I want to introduce you to and look at the life of one of the finest 18th century French female portraitist, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun. In my initial blog about her I want to examine … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Art display, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Female artists, Female painters, French painters, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Portraiture, Self Portraits
Tagged Angelika Kauffmann, Art, Art Blog, Art History, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Female artists, French painter, Portraiture, Self Portrait with Daughter (à la Grecque) by Vigée Le Brun, Self portraits, Self portraits by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
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Réunion de famille (Family Reunion) by Frédéric Bazille
Often when I am driving down a large highway and see that the traffic flow in the opposite direction has stopped resulting in a formidable two or three mile tailback and I go further on, past the hold-up, around a … Continue reading
The Slave Market by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Today I am returning to the nineteenth century French academicism painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme, looking at his early life and featuring one of his works. I had previously featured this artist in My Daily Art Display of February 10th … Continue reading
View at Narni by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Today I want to focus on the early life of one of the greatest nineteenth century French landscape painters, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He was one of the leaders of the Barbizon School and a master of plein air painting. The Barbizon … Continue reading
The Melun Diptych by Jean Fouquet
In my last blog I looked at an altarpiece by Michael Pacher and discussed terms such as diptych, triptych and polyptych, which all referred to panel paintings which were hinged together. Although we looked at a triptych altarpiece this form … Continue reading
