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Louise Abbéma (1853-1927)
Sarah Bernhardt in a Japanese garden - France - 1885
Source : Zimmerli Art Museum, New-Brunswick, New Jersey
The Love Letter (Detail)
Auguste Toulmouche, 1883
Henri Fantin-Latour - Roses And Lilies, 1888. Oil on canvas /
The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 2001, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
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Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935), Port-en-Bessin, The Beach, 1884. Oil on canvas, 46 x 64.5 cm.
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Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, oil on canvas, 246 x 297 cm. National Gallery
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Lady Jane Grey reigned for just nine days as Queen of England following the death of Edward VI in 1553: she was deposed by the faction supporting Edward’s half-sister and heir, Mary Tudor. Tried for treason, the 17-year-old Lady Jane was beheaded at Tower Hill on 12 February 1554.
Delaroche shows the final moments of the blindfolded Lady Jane as she pleads, ‘What shall I do? Where is the block?’ She is being guided towards it by Sir John Brydges, Lieutenant of the Tower. Her outer clothing has already been removed and is gathered in the lap of a lady-in-waiting, who has slumped to the ground. Behind her, a second lady-in-waiting stands facing the wall, unable to watch. To the right, the executioner stands waiting. Using a shallow stage-like space, theatrical lighting and life-size figures, Delaroche plays up the spectacle of the innocent young victim on the brink of martyrdom, compelling us to react to the scene before us.
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Joseph-Noël Sylvestre (1847-1926)
1890 - Sack of Rome by the Visigoths on 24 August 410
Paul Valéry museum in Sète, France
Henri Matisse - Still Life with Books and Candle (1890)
- This painting is one of the first ones which he created.
Two years later in 1891 Matisse returned to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian and became a student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau. He began painting still-lives and landscapes in the traditional Flemish style, at which he achieved reasonable proficiency. Most of his early works employ a dark palette and tend to be gloomy. Matisse was influenced by the works of earlier masters such as Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Nicolas Poussin, and Antoine Watteau, as well as by modern artists, such as Édouard Manet, and by Japanese art. Chardin was one of Matisse’s most admired painters having made four copies of the French still-life master paintings in the Louvre. Although he executed numerous copies after the old masters he also studied contemporary art. His first experimentations earned him a reputation as the rebellious member of his studio classes.
After a discouraging year at the Académie Julian, he left in disgust at the overly perfectionist style of teaching there. Afterwards he trained with Moreau, an artist who nurtured more progressive leanings. In both studios, as was usual, students drew endless figure studies from life. From Bouguereau, he learned the fundamental lessons of classical painting. His one art-schooled technical standby, almost a fetish, was the plumb line. No matter how odd the angles in any Matisse, the verticals are usually dead true.
Moreau was a painter who despised the “art du salon”, so Matisse was destined, in a certain sense, to remain an “outcast” of the art world. He initially failed his drawing exam for admission to the École des Beaux-Arts, but persisted and was finally accepted.
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Henri Matisse - Self Portrait (1918)
- Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was born at eight o'clock in the evening on the last night of the year, 31 December 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis is in the extreme north of France near the Belgian border. The house had two rooms, a beaten earth floor and a leaky roof. Matisse said long afterwards that rain fell through a hole above the bed in which he was born. He was known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
In my opinion he is one of the greatest painters of all time!
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Henri Matisse - The Lute (1943)
- Hi my dear followers! I have just recognised that it’s almost summer! I have 4 more exams, and in a month the real summer will starts for me too! I wish everyone a beautiful day and happy holidays with this exotic and colorful Matisse painting! It’s totally reminds me to summer, love it!
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