#french painters
Aeneas and His Father Fleeing Troy
Simon Vouet (French; 1590–1649)
ca. 1635
Oil on canvas
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
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Portrait of Michel Richard de Lalande in an Architectural Frame with Musical Instruments
Simon Thomassin (French; 1654–1733) after the painting by Jean-Baptiste Santerre (French; 1651–1717)
1726
Engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Frontispiece to: Œuvres de Monsieur de Lalande
Inscribed in the cartouche:
Mortels, C’est de ce beau Délire
Que sontnez parmy vous ces accords si touchants,
Á deux Divinitez Lalande doit ses Chants.
Appollon le forma, C’est Louis que l’inspire.
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The Clemency of Augustus
François André Vincent (French; 1746–1816)
ca. 1787–88
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of red chalk; perspective lines in graphite
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The artist here depicts the concluding scene of Pierre Corneille’s 1641 play, Cinna
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Cupid and Psyche
Jacques-Louis David (French; 1748–1825)
1813
Gray wash and pen and black ink with white paint and traces of black chalk
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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Jean Rustin, Autoportrait avec la comptoir électrique, 2000.
R.I.P. 3 March 1928 – 24 December 2013.
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Vera Rockline (Russian/French, 1896-1934): Reclining nude with red necklace(viaMacDougall’s)
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“Girl in Straw Hat”, 1903, Pierre Bonnard.
“Sunset at Etretat”, c.1890, Eugène Boudin.
“A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight”, 1864, Claude Monet.
“Still Life with Kettle”, 1869, Paul Cezanne.
Easter Mystery (Mystère de Pâques), 1891
Maurice Denis
French, 1870-1943
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses, 1884/89
Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes
French, 1824-1898
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“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.”
~ Chuang Tzu
[Water Lilies, 1917 - 1919 - Claude Monet]
• Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu 莊子 “Master Zhuang” late 4th century BC) is the pivotal figure in Classical Philosophical Daoism. The Zhuangzi is a compilation of his and others’ writings at the pinnacle of the philosophically subtle Classical period in China (5th–3rd century BC). The period was marked by humanist and naturalist reflections on normativity shaped by the metaphor of a dào—a social or a natural path. More: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zhuangzi/
• “One instant, one aspect of nature contains it all,” said Claude Monet, referring to his late masterpieces, the water landscapes that he produced at his home in Giverny between 1897 and his death in 1926. More: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16568/water-lilies
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1. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - The Two Girlfriends, 1894
2. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The Two Friends 1894
“Throughout the 1890s Toulouse-Lautrec visited brothels in Paris and spent days observing the women there. A series of paintings on this theme culminated in ‘Au Salon de la Rue des Moulins’ of about 1894 (Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec), which depicts the women sitting awaiting their clients.
This painting (2) may represent an early stage in the genesis of the Albi picture, but it also belongs to a series of paintings focusing on the friendships between the women which often, as here, portrayed intimate moments or gestures of companionship or sympathy. “ [source]
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