Tag: Jean Béraud
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jean Béraud’s Le Pont Neuf, with footnotes, Part 85
Estimate for 100,000 – 150,000 GBP in December 2009 Here, Béraud captures the spirit of the moment, as workers, bankers in top hats, bakers, an upholsterer carrying a chair on his head, and cabbies make their way across Paris’s oldest bridge, even in Béraud’s day a listed monument. Shoppers flock to the capital’s recently opened retail…
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43 Paintings, Streets of Paris, The Courtesans of Paris, as portrayed by 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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11 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 46
In the sixteenth century when Spain became a world power with vast possessions and sources of wealth in the New World, as well as possessions dotted about Europe, it might have been expected that a vigorous national school of painting would emerge, transforming the somewhat tentative or imitative character that painting in Spain had shown…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jean Beraud’s Pont de Bercy, with footnotes, Part 86
Estimated for £80,000 GBP – £120,000 GBP in November 2005 The Pont de Bercy is a bridge over the Seine in Paris. It links the 12th and 13th arrondissement of Paris by extending the Boulevard de Bercy and Boulevard Vincent-Auriol. In addition to the roadway, the bridge also carries Line 6 of the Paris Métro, between…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jean Béraud’s Avenue des Champs-Élysées, with footnotes, Part 84
Estimated for GBP 400,000 – GBP 600,000 on Dec 2022 The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, running between the Place de la Concorde in the east and the Place Charles de Gaulle in the west, where the Arc de Triomphe is located. It is known for its theatres,…
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43 Paintings, Streets of Paris, The Courtesans of Paris, as portrayed by Artists from 1850-1910 – Behind the Scenes, with footnotes #77
Van Gogh painted this sketch of a brothel parlor while working in close dialogue with fellow artist Paul Gauguin. In the fall of 1888, Van Gogh convinced Gauguin to join him in Arles in the South of France, and the two artists often painted there side by side. They also visited brothels together, partly to…
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12 Paintings of the streets of Paris in the 19th C, by Jean Béraud, Eugène Galien-Laloue, Edouard Henri Leon Cortès, Antoine Blanchard, Gustave Loiseau, with footnotes
Here Gustave Loiseau chose to paint an area of Paris he had been familiar with for a long time. In 1887, when he had decided to devote himself to painting, Gustave Loiseau had settled in Montmartre, in rue de Ravignan. Rue Clignancourt is only a few steps away, at the foot of the hill it…
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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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42 Paintings, Streets of Paris, The Courtesans of Paris, as portrayed by the Artists from 1850-1910 – Behind the Scenes, with footnotes #77
Soliciting was prohibited in broad daylight, but was legal for registered girls at nightfall when the streetlamps were lit. This coincided with knocking-off time for women in the workshops in which some occasional prostitutes were employed. Prostitutes may have cultivated an air of ambiguity during the day, but their appearance gradually changed as the urban…
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Jean Beraud, French, Carrefour Drouot 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 67 – With Footnotes
The rue Drouot was created in the early eighteenth century, but it was extended in the second half of the nineteenth century, following the “Haussmannization” of Paris. The street housed many “magasins de nouveautés”, as well as the famous Hôtel Drouot, which, to this day, is the most renowned auction gallery in the French capital city. More…
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JEAN BÉRAUD, ROND-POINT DES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 58 – With Footnotes
In 1889, a Danish visitor to Paris remarked that its boulevards were “the great rendezvous where the whole population flocks together to satisfy its great craving for sociability, where people meet with the wish of being together, and associate with the amiable courtesy and easy approach that is a consequence of the consciousness of being…
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04 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 15 – With Footnotes
Edouard-Léon Cortès, (French, 1882-1969) Gare de l’Est, 1964 Oil on canvas 18 x 21-3/4 inches (45.7 x 55.2 cm) Private collection Gare de l’Est, officially Paris-Est, is one of the six large train termini in Paris. It is one of the largest and the oldest railway stations in Paris. The Gare de l’Est was opened…
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11 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes – # 46
Florentine school circa 1700, circle of P. Dandini Saint Cecilia Oil on canvas 25 1/4 X 20 7/8 IN. 64 X 53 CM Private Collection St. Cecilia is one of the most famous of the Roman martyrs, even if the familiar stories about her are apparently not founded. The existence of the martyrs, however, is a…
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