Tag: France
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43 Paintings, Streets of Paris, The Courtesans of Paris, as portrayed by the Artists from 1850-1910 – Behind the Scenes, with footnotes #77
It seems that since the Musee dÓrsay’s Exhibition, everybody had something to say! Here are some Paintings that were in the exhibition, and others… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Lucien Genin’s La Place de L’Opera, with footnotes, Part 84
The Place de l’Opéra is a square in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, at the junction of boulevard des Italiens, boulevard des Capucines, avenue de l’Opéra, rue Auber, rue Halévy, rue de la Paix and rue du Quatre-Septembre. It was built at the same time as the Opéra Garnier (designed by Charles Garnier), which is sited…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine’s Paris, Bords de Seine vers Pont Marie, with footnotes, Part 83
The Pont Marie is a bridge which crosses the Seine in Paris, France. The bridge links the Île Saint-Louis to the quai de l’Hôtel de Ville and is one of three bridges designed to allow traffic flow between the Île Saint-Louis and the Left and Right banks of Paris. The Pont Marie links the Right Bank…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s Le pavillon de la Marée aux Halles-Centrales de Paris, with footnotes, Part 82
The building, which was an answer to Emperor Napoléon’s III (1808-18773) sanitary demands and reforms, fascinated the first photographers. At each of the 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881 Salons, Gilbert exhibited at least one painting depicting the Halles of Paris. Gilbert’s composition depicting the fish pavilion, which was at the time in the north of the market, at…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Harry Kernoff’s Sunday Evening – Place du Combat, Paris, with footnotes, Part 81
In the present example, rather than the more customary Dublin scene, Kernoff provides a glimpse of Paris yet with the same distinctive flair. Bathed in the last of the evening sun which casts long and playful shadows, Parisiens – from flat-capped commuters, tradesmen and the rounded and suited gentleman half appearing behind the flowing canopy…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Maurice Brazil Prendergast’s Montparnasse, with footnotes, Part 80
The Boulevard du Montparnasse is a two-way boulevard in Montparnasse, in the 6th, 14th & 15th arrondissements in Paris. Students in the 17th century who came to recite poetry in the hilly neighbourhood nicknamed it after “Mount Parnassus”, home to the nine Muses of arts and sciences in Greek mythology. The hill was levelled to construct…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Gaston La Touche’s La promenade, with footnotes, Part 79
In this work, La Touche finds a later echo in the closing scenes in the film of Colette’s novella, Gigi, where Louis Jourdan and Leslie Caron promenade in the Bois de Boulogne. In the shade, other figures relax and enjoy the afternoon sun. This is the Belle Epoque at its height. However, in a social…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, VICTOR GABRIEL GILBERT’S At the Flower Market, with footnotes, Part 77
At the Flower Market, in contrast to many of Gilbert’s compositions, is set in one of the smaller flower stalls in the French capital. In the center of the composition, an elegant young lady deliberates over her choices for the day, testing the fragrance of pink roses, watched and perhaps encouraged by the stall’s proprietor.…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Román Ribera Cirera’s Leaving the ball, with footnotes, Part 76
The present painting typifies Ribera’s work of this period, with the elegantly dressed women being directed towards their cab after having attended a formal occasion. Here, Ribera focuses the viewer on his highly skilled rendering of the central figures’ clothing and their sumptuous fabrics and fur. Although his later work took on a more social…
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02 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Louis Anquetin’s L’Intérieur de chez Bruant: le Mirliton, with footnotes, #83
L’Intérieur de chez Bruant: le Mirliton is not only a large-scale group portrait representing many of the artist’s illustrious friends, but also a portrait of their preferred gathering place, Le Mirliton, the vivacious establishment opened in 1885 in what had been the second location of the Chat Noir. The cabarets, cafés and dance halls of…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Arbit Blatas’s Pont St. Michel, with footnotes #75
Pont Saint-Michel is a bridge linking the Place Saint-Michel on the left bank of the river Seine to the Île de la Cité. It was named after the nearby chapel of Saint-Michel. It is near Sainte Chapelle and the Palais de Justice. The present 62-metre-long bridge was first constructed in 1378, it has been rebuilt several…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Stanislas Lépine’s Montmartre. La rue Saint-Vincent, Part #78
Stanislas Lépine depicts here the rue Saint-Vincent, between the vineyards of Montmartre and the place du Tertre, close to the artist’s home, rue Fontenelle. While Montmartre is still an almost isolated village at the gates of the city, far from the modernity of Haussmann’s Paris, two women converse, one leaning against her window, the second…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Georg Tappert’s Café, Part 77
Painted in 1917, Café is a fine example of Tappert’s fascination with the subject of café society, which he explored throughout his career, and particularly in the years during the First World War. In taking up themes of the cabaret and the world of entertainment, Tappert reflects the influence of works by Pechstein and Van…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Francois Gall’s Montmartre, Part 76
With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A real melting pot of art…
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01 Work, Streets of Paris, Camille Pissarro’s Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, with footnotes, #11
Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rainbelongs to a series of fifteen works that Camille Pissarro painted in Paris from the window of his hotel in the place du Théâtre Français during the winter of 1897 and 1898. Pissarro, who had spent practically all of his life in the country and was basically a landscape…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Ken Howard’s Stormy Morning, Quai St Michel, Paris, Part #81
The Quai Saint-Michel in the french capital Paris is a small section of the southern bank of the Seine between the bridges Pont Saint-Michel and Petit Pont. The naming references archangel Michael, who was patron to a chapel in the nearby former kings palace. Ken Howard R.A. (British, born 1932) studied at Hornsey School of Art…
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01 Work, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part #81
The Boulevard Marguerite-de-Rochechouart is a street in Paris, France, situated at the foot of Montmartre and to its south. Like the neighbouring street, it is named after Marguerite de Rochechouart de Montpipeau (1665–1727), abbess of Montmartre. It is a result of the 1864 merging of the boulevards and chemins de ronde which followed the interior and…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Louis Magre’s Banks of the Seine, Part #79
Louis Magre was born in Paris in 1955. As a teenager, he studied drawing and architecture, which he gradually gave up to concentrate solely on drawing. He currently lives in Provence, an area which fascinates him and which he loves to admire and paint. At the beginning of his career, he drew nudes and portraits…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by Victor Guerrier, Part 78
Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in Paris, France.The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the red windmill…
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