Tag Archives: Manet

Une loge aux Italiens (A Box at the Theatre des Italiens) by Eva Gonzalès

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

I had intended this offering to be my previous blog but when I researched into today’s featured artist and her painting I saw there was a connection between this work of hers and a similar one completed by Renoir in … 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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Un atelier aux Batignolles (A Studio at Les Batignolles) by Henri Fantin-Latour

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Today I am looking at a work of art by the French painter, Henri Fantin-Latour, or to give him his full name, Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour.  The family was of Italian ancestry and the “Fantin” part of the name came from the … Continue reading →

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Camille Doncieux and Claude Monet

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

My next two blogs deal not with a particular painting but with the subject of a series of paintings completed lovingly by one artist.  The subject is Camille-Léonie Doncieux, who was the beloved model, mistress and wife of Claude Monet.  … Continue reading →

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A Bar at the Folies Bergère by Édouard Manet

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

Yesterday I looked at a painting by the Belgian artist Antoine Wiertz and bemoaned the fact that although I could discover facts about the artist himself, I could find little information about the featured work of art.  I have no … Continue reading →

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The Railway by Édouard Manet

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

During Édouard Manet’s life he was great friends with the writer Charles Beaudelaire, the French poet, philosopher and art critic, and from around 1855 they became constant companions with the two of them frequently going off on sketching trips.   It … Continue reading →

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Olympia by Édouard Manet

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

My Daily Art Display today continues with the life of Édouard Manet.  Yesterday we had reached 1864 the year when he exhibited his work entitled The Dead Christ with Angels at the Paris Salon and for which he was heavily … Continue reading →

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The Dead Christ with Angels by Édouard Manet

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

Today, My Daily Art Display returns to the French painter of contemporary urban life and who was a leading figure in the shift from Realism to Impressionism and was looked upon as one of the founding fathers of Modernism.  So … Continue reading →

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Le Bercau (The Cradle) by Berthe Morisot

Posted on August 10, 2011 by

Today I am returning to the Impressionists.  For most people, if they were asked to reel off the names of Impressionist artists, the likes of Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Renior and Pissarro would easily trip off the tongue.   With a little … Continue reading →

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