Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Painting #06A - Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 

(1864–1901, French Post-Impressionist)

Toulouse-Lautrec had his own table and studio (in a lounge) at the Moulin Rouge.

At the Moulin Rouge
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- oil on canvas (123 × 140 cm) 1892-95
- Art Institute of Chicago
 
Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- oil & gouache on cardboard (80 x 61 cm) 1892
- National Gallery of Art (Washington)


Woman with a Black Boa
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- oil on cardboard (91 x 61 cm) 1892
-  Musée d'Orsay (Paris)
 
Jane Avril Dancing
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- oil on cardboard (85 x 45 cm) c.1892
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris) 


 
Mr. Toulouse paints Mr. Lautrec
- Maurice Guibert (1856-1913)
- photomontage c.1891


Rousse (La Toilette)
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- oil on board (67 x 54 cm) 1896/1889
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)
  
(aka Dans le lit, 'In Bed')
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- oil on cardboard  on wood (54 x 70 cm) c.1892
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)


Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- poster (191 x 117 cm) 1891
 
Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant dans son cabaret
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
- poster ( 150 x 100 cm) 1892



Japanese ukiyo-e paintings, especially Utarmaro's, 
at the Paris Expo inspired Toulouse-Lautrec.   

- Utarmaro/喜多川歌麿 (1753-1806, Japanese)
- Ukiyo-e woodcut (39 × 26 cm) 1790
- Honolulu Museum of Art
 
He even created his logo/signature (initials H.T.L.) like Utarmaro's. 

娘日時計・未ノ刻
- 喜多川歌麿
- 絵画 (江戸時代) 18世紀
- 東京国立博物館
 
酉ノ刻
這張圖描繪的是花魁準備入場的景象，
一旁還有比較低階的遊女幫忙打燈，
對比著身著貴雅磚紅和服，
且擁有模特身材十頭身的花魁，
在畫面上一高一低，
視覺上形成強烈的衝擊性。


Jane Avril at the Jardin de Paris
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- lithograph (129 x 94 cm) 1893
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)


La revue blanche
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- poster (32 x 23 cm) 1896
- Swann Auction Galleries
La Chaîne Simpson BICYCLE CHAINS
- Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
- poster, 1896


At the Salon of the rue des Moulins
- Henri deToulouse-Lautrec
- oil on cardboard, 1894
-  Musée Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi)
 
Rue des Moulins
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- oil on cardboard on wood (83 x 61 cm) 1894
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 
The Medical Inspection at the Rue des Moulins Brothel


Miss Dolly
An English Barmaid at the Star Bar-café
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- (41 x 33 cm) 1899
- Musée Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi)
 
La Modiste: Mademoiselle Margouin
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- color on cardboard (61 x 50 cm) 1900
- Musée Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi)


The Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec
in the living room of the Château de Malromé
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- oil on canvas (94 x 81 cm) 1886/1883
- Musée Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi)
Mother of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
 
Maurice Joyant Somme bay
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- oil on canvas (117 x 81 cm) 1900
- Musee Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi)

After Toulouse-Lautrec's death, his mother (above L) and his art dealer (above R), Maurice Joyant, continued promoting his artwork. His mother contributed funds for a museum to be created in Albi, his birthplace, to show his works. This Musée Toulouse-Lautrec owns the most extensive collection of his works:
Musée Toulouse-Lautrec
- Albi, Southern France


Source: Wikipedia

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Painting #060 - Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich (German Romantic, 1774–1840)


The Tetschen Altar, or The Cross in the Mountains
Friedrich in 1807
Oil on canvas (115 × 111 cm)
Friedrich's first major work, the piece breaks with the traditions of representing the crucifixion in altarpieces by depicting the scene as a landscape.
Friedrich

Friedrich in 1818
Oil-on-canvas (98 × 75 cm)
Friedrich in 1818
Oil on canvas (91 × 71 cm)
Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten


Two Men Contemplating the Moon
- Caspar David Friedrich
- oil on canvas (35 × 45 cm) 1819-20
- Galerie Neue Meister (Dresden)



The Giant Mountains 
Friedrich in 1830–35
Oil on canvas (72 × 102 cm)


 
Romanticism


Source: Wikipedia

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Painting #059 - Theodore Chasseriau

Théodore Chassériau

(1819–1856, Dominican-born French Romantic)

The Toilette of Esther
- Théodore Chassériau
- oil on canvas (45.5 × 35.5 cm) 1841
- Musée du Louvre (Paris)


Le Tepidarium
- Théodore Chassériau
- oil on canvas (171 x 258 cm) 1853
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)
The tepidarium was the warm bathroom of the Roman baths heated by an underfloor heating system.

Source: Wikipedia

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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Painting #058 - Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix 

(French Romantic, 1798–1863)

Self-portrait with Green Vest
- Eugène Delacroix in 1837
 - oil on canvas (65 x 54.5 cm)
- Louvre Museum (Paris)


- Eugene Delacroix 
- oil on canvas (419 × 354 cm) 1824
- Louvre (Paris)
A military attack -- on the inhabitants of Chios Island by Ottoman forces in 1822 -- resulted in the deaths of 20,000 citizens, and the forced deportation into slavery of almost all the surviving 70,000 inhabitants. Dark smoke came from a burning village in the background. 
 
The Massacre at Chios

Chios island
was close to the Ottoman Empire,
and inhabited by Greeks.

- Delacroix 
- oil on canvas (65 × 54 cm) 1824
- Louvre (Paris)
Believed to be a preparatory work in oil for the artist's later Massacre at Chios, Orphan Girl at the Cemetery is nevertheless considered a masterpiece in its own right. 


The Death of Sardanapalus
- Eugène Delacroix
- oil on canvas
(392 × 496 cm) 1827 - Louvre (Paris)
& (74 × 82 cm) 1844 - Philadelphia Museum of Art
The king has his concubines and beloved horse killed, and himself killed in the burning palace, before the fall of his kingdom.


Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
- Eugène Delacroix
- oil painting (498 × 410 cm) 1840
- Louvre (Paris)


Apollo Slays Python
- Eugene Delacroix
- oil on mounted canvas (800 x 750 cm) 1850-1851
- Louvre Museum (Paris)


- Eugene Delacroix
- oil on canvas (260 × 325 cm) 1830
- Louvre (Paris)
It commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X (younger brother of Louis XVI and Louis XVIII), and established the constitutional monarchy (1830-1848) for his cousin Louis-Philippe (Duke of Orléans,)
     Note the use of the tricolor among the clothes, and the loss of shoes and trousers (to other poor).

Bust of Marianne
- Théodore Doriot
French Senate
A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the tricolor flag of the French Revolution in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. 

This figure of Liberty, known as Marianne, is viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic, an allegory of liberty and reason, and a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty.

July Revolution of 1830 
Liberty Leading the People

Statue de la Liberté, Paris

One other view of the July Revolution:
Prise de l'Hôtel de ville : le Pont d'Arcole
- Amédée Bourgeois (1798-1837, French)
- oil on canvas (145 x 195 cm) 1831
- Palace of Versailles (Paris)



The Barque of Dante
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (189 × 246 cm) 1822
- Louvre (Paris)


Arab Saddling his Horse
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (56 x 47 cm) 1855
- Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)


Sultan of Morocco
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (377 x 340 cm) 1845
- Musée des Augustins de Toulouse (France)
Moulay Abd-er-Rahman, Sultan of Morocco, leaving his palace in Meknes, surrounded by his guard and his main officers.


Women of Algiers in their Apartment
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (180 × 229cm) 1834
- Louvre (Paris)


From 1857 to 1861 Delacroix worked on frescoes for the Chapelle des Anges at the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris:
They included "Saint Michael Slaying the Dragon", and the following two, all stories from the Old Testimony:
(L) Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
- Delacroix
- fresco (714 x 485 cm) 1856-1861
- Church of Saint-Sulpice (Paris)
 
(R) Heliodorus Driven from the Temple
- Delacroix
- fresco (751 x 485 cm) 1854-1861
- Church of Saint-Sulpice (Paris)


The Portrait of Chopin & Sand

The Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand was an 1838 unfinished oil-on-canvas painting by Delacroix.

(L) Frédéric Chopin
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (46 x 38 cm) 1838
- Louvre (Paris)
 
(R) George Sand
- Delacroix
- oil on canvas (79 x 57 cm) 1838
- Ordrupgaard (Copenhagen)

Source: Wikipedia


A 19th century cartoon depicting
Ingres with a pen versus
Delacroix with a brush


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