Tag: French
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01 Limestone Sculpture, RELIGIOUS ART, French, Normandy, Virgin and Child – with footnotes #187
Sold for 113,400 USD in January 2022This seated Virgin holds a lily-scepter in her proper left hand and supports the Christ Child with her right. She wears a belted gown under an open mantle, the edges of which are decorated with cavities that would have held jewels made from colored glass. The Christ Child stands on…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Vasily Vereshchagin’s Through the fire, with footnotes
Napoleon, with the help of soldiers, moves through the fire towards the Arbat; The name of a part of the city district located in the central administrative district of Moscow.Vasily Vereshchagin carefully studied the history of the French invasion of Russia in 1812, paying particular attention to the military-historical realities. Through source materials and studies devoted…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Noël-Nicolas Coypel’s HOLY FAMILY AND HOLY YEAR, With Footnotes – #182
The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. Veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a Confraternity. Matthew and Luke narrate the episodes from this period of Christ’s life, namely his…
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Victor Pierre Huguet, AT THE WADI 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #60
Wadi is the Arabic term referring to a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season. Victor Pierre Huguet, born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received advice from Fromentin in…
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Jules Worms, Rendezvous 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 45 – With Footnotes
Jules Worms was born into a family of Parisian shopkeepers in the early years of the July Monarchy, a period in French history that is characterized by the cultivation of a thriving comic tradition in the visual arts. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, beginning in 1849 under Jean-Baptiste-Adolf Lafrosse, and made his debut at…
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Eugene Galien-Laloue, Le Marche aux Puces 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 33 – With Footnotes
Eugene Galien-Laloue, French, 1854-1941 Le Marche aux Puces/ Flea market Gouache on thin board 13 x 16 1/8 inches (33 x 41 cm) Private collection Fleas are parasitic insects that have always been assumed, rightly or wrongly, to infest the old clothes full of vermin sold by the scavengers , “fleas included”. The expression “flea market”…
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Victor Huguet, Riders in a Ravine 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 32
Victor Huguet, 1835 – 1902, FRENCH Riders in a Ravine Oil on canvas 118 by 100cm., 46½ by 39¼in. Private collection Victor Pierre Huguet , born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received…
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Jean Dufy, French, Le Port 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #122
Jean Dufy, French, 1888-1964 Le Port Watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board 17 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches (45 x 60 cm) Private collection Jean Dufy (b Le Havre, France, 1888; d La Boissière, 1964) French Painter. Following his service in the military, from 1910-1912, Jean Dufy relocated to Paris. Inspired by the work of Braque and…
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01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 16
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger, (FRENCH 1824 – 1888) Aristocratic ladies promenading at the city walls, c. 1869 Oil on canvas 73 x 50cm Private collection Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (25 April 1824 – October 1888) was a French figure painter known for his classical and Orientalist subjects. He was born at Paris in 1824, and orphaned at age…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 23 – With Footnotes
Constantin Kluge, French, 1912-2003 Place des Vosges Oil on canvas 35 x 45 3/4 inches (88.9 x 116.2 cm) Private collection The Place des Vosges, originally Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris. It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris. It…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #29
George Da Maduro Peixotto, American, 1858-1937 Portrait of Marie-Aimee Roger-Miclos, Pianist, 1893 Oil on canvas 57 1/8 x 74 inches (145 x 188 cm) Private collection Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos ( Toulouse , 1860 – 1950 ) was a great French pianist. She studied piano at the Conservatory of her hometown and in Paris , earning a first prize in…
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01 Paintings, of The amorous game, Part 10 – With Footnotes
Pascale Taurua, b. 1961, France Caresse Oil on Canvas 39.4 H x 39.4 W x 0.8 in Private Collection Pascale Taurua , born in 1961 is a French painter elected Miss New Caledonia 1977 , then Miss France 1978 . She succeeds Veronica Bundle, Miss France 1977. She is the 48 th Miss France. A few months…
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04 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by its Artists, 19 and 20 Centuary. Part 12 – With Footnotes
Constantin Kluge, French, 1912-2003 Notre-Dame (Dessin), c. 1963 Oil on canvas 28 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches (73 x 73 cm) Private collection Constantin Kluge (1912–2003) was an award winning painter originally from Russia. Raised mostly in Manchuria and Beijing, Kluge eventually settled in Paris and became a French citizen. He is known for his French landscapes…
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