Dose of Art #190: Jules Dupre – The Old Oak (1870)
Dupres was a French landscape painter from Nantes. Although he painted some marine landscapes he favoured ones featuring trees. He […]
French Art
Dose of Art #179: Pierre Auguste Cot – La Tempête / The Storm (1880)
Paul et Virginie is a novel by the Frenchmen Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. First published in 1788 it tells the […]
Dose of Art #164: Jean-Simeon Chardin – The Ray (c. 1725-1726)
Chardin made this painting some 35 years before yesterdays coffeepot and together with its companion piece The Buffet it marked […]
Dose of Art #163: Jean-Simeon Chardin – Glass of Water and Coffeepot (c. 1761)
The painting once belonged to the French critic Philippe Burty, whose friends called it “a marvel, this little picture, in […]
Dose of Art #149: Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)
Almost 35 years before yesterdays self-portrait, Renoir painted Bal du Moulin de la Galette. It depicts a typical Sunday at […]
Dose of Art #148: Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Self-portrait (1910)
Renoir was 69 years old when he painted this portrait of himself. In 1907, he had moved to the warmer […]
Dose of Art #145: Eugène Delacroix – Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement / Women of Algiers in their Apartment (1834)
Delacroix was a Romantic painter with a longing for the exotic. He visited Spain and Morocco shortly after the French […]
Dose of Art #141: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Bonaparte, First Consul (1804)
When Napoleon visited the (Belgian) city of Liege in 1803, it was devastated by an Austrian bombardment. He decreed an […]
Dose of Art #137: Edouard Manet – Devant la Glace / Before the Mirror (c. 1876)
The scandal of painting prostitutes had worn off by the time Manet made this painting. He had already painted two […]
Dose of Art #133: Camille Pissarro – A View of L’Hermitage, near Pontoise (1874)
Pissarro lived in Pontoise between 1866 and 1883. During this period he painted a number of paintings of the village […]