Michelangelo Buonarroti | Celestial Love | Sonnet 105

No mortal thing enthralled these longing eyes

When perfect peace in thy fair face I found;

But far within, where all is holy ground,

My soul felt Love, her comrade of the skies:

Non vider gli occhi miei cosa mortale

allor che ne’ bei vostri intera pace

trovai, ma dentro, ov’ogni mal dispiace,

chi d’amor l’alma a sé simil m’assale;

Montserrat Gudiol (1933-2015)

Montserrat Gudiol Corominas (Barcellona, 9 giugno 1933 - 25 dicembre 2015) è stato una pittrice Spagnola.

Nel 1981 diventa la prima Donna ammessa alla Real Academia Catalana di Belle Arti di San Giorgio (San Jordi in catalano).

Nel 1998 riceve la Croce di San Giorgio ("La Creu de Sant Jordi" assegna annualmente alle persone od entità sociali che si sono distinte nella diffusione e promozione della lingua e della cultura catalane) assegnato dal governo della Catalogna.

Montserrat Gudiol è nata a Barcellona. È la figlia dell'architetto e storico dell'arte Gudiol Ricart.

Nel 1950 studia il restauro dei dipinti antichi e si dedica in particolare alla pittura su legno e carta. Parte in Spagna ma anche in Sud Africa, Stati Uniti, Russia e Canada.

Auguste Charpentier (1813-1880) | Ritrattista

Auguste Charpentier è stato un pittore, incisore e designer Francese🎨.

Charpentier ha studiato sotto la direzione di Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres🎨 e François Gérard all'École beaux-arts de Paris.

Tintoretto in America

La collezione Samuel Kress comprende oltre 3.000 opere d'arte europea ed è rinomata per l'abbondanza di dipinti del Rinascimento italiano.

La collezione è stata donata a decine di musei d'arte regionali e accademici negli Stati Uniti tra il 1929-1961, con la più grande donazione riservata alla National Gallery of Art di Washington D.C. | © Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York

Tintoretto | Self-Portrait, 1588 | Musee du Louvre

Gerard van Honthorst | Adorazione del Bambino, 1619-1620

Adoration of the Christ Child (Italian: Adorazione del Bambino), is a circa 1619-1621 oil on canvas painting of the Nativity by the Dutch Golden Age artist Gerard van Honthorst (1590-1656) in the collection of the Uffizi in Florence.

The Adoration of the Child shows a moonlit scene with Mary laying the Child in swaddling clothes.

Joseph is looking over her shoulder and two angels are leaning over the crib.

Gerard van Honthorst | Adoration of the Christ Child, 1619-1620 | Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Victorian era Christmas Card

The gift of love.

The gift of peace.

The gift of happiness.

May all these be yours at Christmas.

Allegory of Poetry

Auger Lucas (French Rococo Era painter, 1685-1765) | An Allegory of Poetry

As a literary device, an allegory is a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

Allegory (in the sense of the practice and use of allegorical devices and works) has occurred widely throughout history in all forms of art, largely because it can readily illustrate or convey complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers, or listeners.

Writers or speakers typically use allegories as literary devices or as rhetorical devices that convey (semi-)hidden or complex meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.

Many allegories use personifications of abstract concepts.

Barbara Longhi (1552-1638) | Pittrice Manierista

Barbara Longhi è stata una pittrice Italiana.

Fu una stimata ritrattista, ma solo poche sue opere ci sono pervenute, in parte riconducibili all'attività svolta nella bottega del padre, dove le era affidato il compito di produrre piccole tele su tema religioso, destinate alla devozione privata.

Nacque a Ravenna, dove trascorse l'intera sua esistenza.

Era figlia di Luca (1507-1580), noto pittore manierista🎨 e di Bernardina Baronzelli.

Allegory of Music

Francesco Trevisani (Italian Rococo Era painter, 1656-1746) | An allegory of music

The word Music derives from Greek μουσική (mousike; "art of the Muses").

In Greek mythology, the nine Muses were the goddesses who inspired literature, science, and the arts and who were the source of the knowledge embodied in the poetry, song-lyrics, and myths in the Greek culture.

Allegory of painting

Artemisia Gentileschi🎨 (Italian Baroque Era painter, 1593-1652) | Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1638 (detail) | Royal Collection

First attested in English in 1382, the word allegory comes from Latin allegoria, the latinisation of the Greek ἀλληγορία (allegoría), "veiled language, figurative", which in turn comes from both ἄλλος (allos), "another, different" and ἀγορεύω (agoreuo), "to harangue, to speak in the assembly", which originates from ἀγορά (agora), "assembly".

Lucien Abrams (1870-1941) | Impressionist painter

A native Kansan, Lucien Abrams moved to Dallas with his family in 1873. He studied at Princeton, the Art Students League of New York, and the Académie Julian in Paris, living and traveling in Europe and Algeria from 1894-1914.

While Abrams’ style is diverse, the works he exhibited annually in Paris, and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the National Academy of Design showed the influences of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Fauvism.

Hans Thoma | The Twelve Months, 1906-1908

Hans Thoma | January

Born in the Black Forest to a family of manual laborers, German painter, Hans Thoma (1839-1924) studied lithography in Basel in 1853, and after 1855 worked in Furtwangen with a miniaturist, painting watches and jewelry cases.

He entered the Karlsruhe Kunstschule in 1858 where his teachers included Ludwig Des Coudres, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, and Hans Canon. His major interest during this period was landscape.

Henri Matisse at the Hermitage Museum

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is exhibited at the The State Hermitage Museum in Hall 440.

The celebrated monumental paintings include the pair of panels known as Dance and Music (both 1910), Family Portrait (1911), Conversation (between 1909-1912).

The first variant of Dance is depicted in another picture entitled Fruits, Flowers, and the Panel “Dance” (1909).

Frederick Carl Frieseke | Vita ed opere

Frederick Carl Frieseke è stato uno dei maggiori pittori impressionisti Americani.

Biografia

Frederick Carl Frieseke nacque in una cittadina del Michigan, figlio del titolare di un'impresa edile. Dopo la morte della madre nel 1881 la famiglia si trasferì in Florida e tornò nel Michigan solo nel 1892. Frederick iniziò allora i suoi studi d'arte presso l'Art Institute of Chicago, dove rimase per quattro anni, per poi recarsi a New York alla Art Student League, dove restò sino al 1897.

Nel 1898 partì per la Francia, e vi rimase tutta la vita, pur continuando a tornare spesso in patria in occasione delle sue mostre o per particolari lavori.

A Parigi si iscrisse all'Académie Julian ed ebbe come maestri Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant e Jean-Paul Laurens.

Jean Geoffroy (1853-1924) | Genre painter

Henri-Jules-Jean Geoffroy, also known by the pseudonym Géo was a French painter🎨 and illustrator, known primarily for his genre scenes🎨 with children. Some sources give his first names in reverse order.

His father, Jean-Baptiste (1822-1895), was a tailor and costume designer.

His mother, Rosalie, was the eldest daughter of an English painter named John Dickinson (1791-1830). They moved to Paris when he was only two.

Diego Rivera (1887-1957)

Diego Rivera, all'anagrafe Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez è stato un pittore e muralista Messicano, famoso per la tematica sociale delle sue opere realizzate in gran parte in edifici pubblici (soprattutto nel centro storico di Città del Messico).

Nacque a Guanajuato l'8 dicembre 1886.

A partire dal 1896 iniziò a prendere lezioni notturne nell'Accademia di San Carlos a Città del Messico, in cui conobbe il noto paesaggista José María Velasco.

Perugino (1445-1523)

Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci -il Perugino, was the greatest painter of the Umbrian school, active mainly in Perugia.

He studied under Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, assisted Piero della Francesca at Arezzo, and in the early 1470s was a fellow pupil of Leonardo da Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi in Verrocchio's studio in Florence.

In 1479 Perugino was summoned to Rome by Pope Sixtus IV to help decorate the Sistine Chapel.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.

During his life he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work.

Edgar Degas: "Niente, in arte, deve sembrare dovuto al caso"

▻ "Do it again, ten times, a hundred times. Nothing in art must seem to be an accident, not even movement".

▻ "Bisogna rifare dieci volte, cento volte lo stesso soggetto. Niente, in arte, deve sembrare dovuto al caso".

Edgar Degas

Théo van Rysselberghe (Belgian, 1862-1926)

Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century.

He discovered the pointillist technique when he saw Georges Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the eighth Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886.

Camillo Rusconi | Scultore barocco

Camillo Rusconi (Milano, 14 luglio 1658 - Roma, 8 dicembre 1728) è stato uno scultore Italiano.

Figlio di genitori originari del Cantone Ticino, fu allievo a Milano di Giuseppe Rusnati.

Giunse a Roma nel 1684, data in cui è documentato nella bottega del ticinese Ercole Ferrata, un artista formatosi nella scia di Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Lavorò inizialmente ad opere minori, per lo più in stucco, poste a decorazione di architetture (a San Silvestro in Capite, San Salvatore in Lauro, Santa Maria in Vallicella).

Ettore Tito (Italian painter, 1859-1941)

Ettore Tito🎨 was born in Castellammare di Stabia (near Naples) on 17 December 1859 to Ubaldo Tito, a merchant marine captain and Luigia Novello Tito.

His mother was Venetian, and when he was a small boy the family returned to Venice where he was to live for the rest of his life.

He began his art studies at an early age, first with the Dutch artist Cecil Van Haanen, who was to become a lifelong friend, and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti where he had been accepted at the age of 12 before he had even reached the legal age for admission.

Dosso Dossi | Pittore del Rinascimento

Dosso Dossi, pseudonimo di Giovanni Francesco di Niccolò Luteri (San Giovanni del Dosso oppure Tramuschio, 1486 circa – Ferrara, 1542) fu uno dei maggiori pittori del Rinascimento a Ferrara, ed è noto per il suo stile enigmatico ed allegorico.

Il suo nome di battesimo era Giovanni di Niccolò Luteri, e nacque a Tramuschio.

Suo padre lavorava come tesoriere per le terre della famiglia estense, presso la loro corte di Ferrara.

Successivamente, gli Este furono mecenati di Dossi.

Sinisha Kashawelski, 1969 | Surrealist painter

Born in Kumanovo, North Macedonia, Sinisha Kashawelski / Синиша Кашавелски graduated the College of Applied Arts in Skopje, North Macedonia and also the same university's Faculty of Fine Arts.

He is a member of DLUM (National Artists Association of North Macedonia), Société des Artistes Français, Société Du Salon D’automne - Paris, member and Ambassador at Mondial Art Academia and the author of many solo projects and exhibitions.

Renoir | Landscapes with Figures

"If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree.

No two leaves are exactly the same.

The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself"

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Caspar David Friedrich (German painter, 1774-1840)

Caspar David Friedrich was one of the greatest exponents in European art of the symbolic🎨 landscape.

He studied at the Academy in Copenhagen (1794-98), and subsequently settled in Dresden, often traveling to other parts of Germany.

Friedrich's landscapes are based entirely on those of northern Germany and are beautiful renderings of trees, hills, harbors, morning mists, and other light effects based on a close observation of nature.

Some of Friedrich's best-known paintings are expressions of a religious mysticism.

Ivan Kramskoj | Pittore Orientalista

Ivan Nikolaevič Kramskoj (Ostrogožsk, 8 giugno 1837 - San Pietroburgo, 6 aprile 1887) è stato un pittore e critico d'arte Russo, inoltre è stato il leader intellettuale dei Peredvižniki tra il 1860-1880.

Originario da una povera famiglia piccolo borghese, dal 1857-1863 studiò all'Accademia Imperiale d'Arte, in seguito si oppose all'arte accademica e fu uno degli iniziatori della rivolta dei quattordici che finì con l'espulsione dall'accademia, a causa di ciò crearono il gruppo dell'Artel dei pittori ("Артель художников").

Yarek Godfrey (Polish, 1957-2014)

Born in Olsztyn, Poland, Yarek Godfrey (real name Jaroslaw Pawel Nowicki) was a Polish artist of French, British and Austrian origins.

In 1982 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and the Studies for Stage Costume design for theater in Cracow.

In 1983 he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death in 2014.

Godfrey received numerous awards for his work (among others, the Gold Medal of the XXXVIII Salon of Young Artists, Grand Palais, Paris, 1987; Grand Prix of the XXVI International Art Salon Côte d’Azur, Cannes, 1990).

He presented his work at numerous group and individual exhibitions, primarily in the United States and France, but also in Belgium, Monaco or Italy. He died tragically on March 28th, 2014.

Elie Anatole Pavil | The quay of tournelle at sunset in winter

Born in Odessa, Elie Anatole Pavil (1873-1948) came to Paris in 1892 and dedicated himself to capturing its atmosphere on canvas. For most of the next fifty years he painted the cafes, the beautiful women, the jazz bands and artist ateliers of Paris.

His paintings show an intimate knowledge of the inhabitants of the streets and alley’s of Montmartre. Elegant couples dancing, beautiful models posing, working men finishing their day with a drink at the bar, all were captured in Pavil’s carefully balanced compositions, many of which show the distinct the influence of Degas🎨 and Renoir🎨.

Elie Anatole Pavil | Evening in a Parisian Cafe

Elie Anatole Pavil (1873-1948) was an Ukrainian-born French painter.

Pavil was born in Odessa, Russia in 1873. He came to Paris in 1892.

Pavil exhibited at the Salon des Artists Français, Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne. He exhibited at Galerie Charpentier, Galerie Georges Petit, and Galerie Bernheim Jeune. Claude Monet described Pavil’s paintings as “little marvels”.

He was awarded Chevailier de la l’Légion d’Honneur. Pavil also counted Pissaro among his friends. Pavil continued painting with the same passion until the end of his days.

August von Siegen (German painter, 1850-1910)

August von Siegen was a German painter🎨 who specialized in cityscapes of in the style of European and "Oriental" -Eastern Mediterranean cities.

He lived in Munich but also lived and worked in Vienna. He travelled across Europe to Holland, Venice and Rome painting the architectural landscapes of cities and towns.

He also travelled to Izmir in Turkey and produced a number of Orientalist paintings. His works are highly popular with crisp, architectural details as in this fine example.

Colors | Yellow

Claude Monet | Yellow Irises, 1917

Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light.

It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 570-590 nm.

It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing.

In the RGB color model, used to create colors on television and computer screens, yellow is a secondary color made by combining red and green at equal intensity.

Carotenoids give the characteristic yellow color to autumn leaves, corn, canaries, daffodils, and lemons, as well as egg yolks, buttercups, and bananas.

They absorb light energy and protect plants from photodamage.

Sunlight has a slight yellowish hue when sun is near a horizon, due to atmosphere scattering shorter wavelengths (green, blue, and violet).

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The following collection encompasses over 111 notable paintings produced by French painter🎨 and lithographer Henri Fantin-Latour, best known for his flower paintings and group compositions of contemporary French classical composers and celebrities in the arts.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Fantin-Latour see:

• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) | 111 artworks | Page 1🎨
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Gustave Caillebotte | Le Pont de l'Europe, 1876

Le Pont de l'Europe / The Europe Bridge, is an oil painting by French impressionist Gustave Caillebotte completed in 1876. It is held by the Musée du Petit Palais in Geneva, Switzerland.

The finished canvas measures 125 by 181 centimetres (49 in × 71 in).

The image shows pedestrians in the Place de l'Europe in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

The plaza is a large bridge joining six avenues, each named for a European capital, over the railroad yards at Gare Saint-Lazare. The view is from the rue de Vienne, looking towards the center of the plaza.

One of the bridge's trusses is very prominent, visible in half of the image.

Ricardo Sanz, 1957 | Pittore Figurativo

Ricardo Sanz è un pittore di San Sebastián. Il suo lavoro è in stile figurativo contemporaneo.

La sua vocazione artistica è stata forgiata attraverso il nonno, titolare della Galleria d'Arte La Perfecta in cui ha incontrato i grandi artisti della pittura: Sorolla, Zuloaga, Vázquez Diaz, ecc.

A quattordici anni inizia la sua formazione come pittore con José Camps, mentre prosegue gli studi fino alla laurea in Storia all'Università di Deusto e Storia dell'Arte a Madrid.

A Parigi e in Italia continua il suo apprendistato con importanti pittori dell'epoca.

Infine si stabilisce a Madrid, dove vive e ha il suo studio dal 1980; da sempre legato a San Sebastian, sua città natale, dove trascorre lunghi periodi.

Michał Świder

Michał Świder (1962-2019) è stato un pittore Polacco, diplomato all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Cracovia.

Le figure allegoriche dei suoi affreschi e delle sue tele si muovono con raffinata eleganza, sono leggermente idealizzati puri ed angelici.

Già al primo incontro con le sue opere uno è colpito dalla sua incredibile raffinatezza e metafisicità.

Tutto sembra essere immerso in una totale freddezza, ferma nell'incantesimo, nella meditazione, nel dolore.

Le figure allegoriche dei suoi affreschi e tele si muovono con eleganza raffinata, leggera e silenziosa. Sono leggermente idealizzate, pure e angeliche.

Volti: umani, angeli, androgeni e santi sono il riflesso dell'anima dell'uomo (artista), sono la sintesi lirica dei suoi sentimenti, degli stati d'animo, della considerazione e delle esperienze.

Cesare-Auguste Detti (Italian, 1847-1914)

Cesare Agostino Detti, or Cesare-Auguste Detti (1847, Spoleto - May 19 1914, Paris) was an Italian painter🎨, best known for his historical genre scenes, largely from the 17th and 18th Centuries, inspired by the Troubadour style.

His father, Davide Detti, was an engineer and an amateur painter. As a result, his early interest in art was encouraged.

In 1861, he made the acquaintance of Francesco Coghetti, a painter from Rome who was creating murals at the Teatro Nuovo (now known as the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti).

Coghetti suggested that Detti receive formal training at the Accademia di San Luca, where he was a professor.

Horace Fisher (1861-1928) | Genre painter

Horace Fisher was a British painter🎨, best known for his genre paintings🎨, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people.

Fisher's notable works include "Young Girls Picking Flowers", "A Peasant Girl on a Sunlit Veranda", "Lost in Thought" and "The Orange Sellers".

Remzi Taskiran, 1961

Nato ad Adıyaman in Turchia, Remzi Taşkıran ha completato gli studi superiori ad Istanbul. Ha ottenuto la sua educazione artistica dal pittore Saadettin Çağlarca.

L'artista, che ha lavorato per qualche tempo come pittore di stampa, ha opere che sono state esposte in collezioni sia in patria che all'estero.

Pittore professionista - Taşkıran ha aperto un suo studio ad Istanbul, dove impiega del tempo per creare temi unici per la sua arte, prevenendo le preoccupazioni della vita quotidiana mentre si prepara per le sue mostre.

In particolare nei suoi dipinti basati sulle impressioni locali, si osserva che va oltre le sue azioni quotidiane e crea dipinti originali in cui il suo spirito, coscienza, capacità ed istinti vengono alla luce.

La vicinanza ai valori tradizionali di Taşkıran è evidenziata agli occhi della critica come capacità di ritrarre uno stile pittorico unico.

Ilya Repin (Russian, 1844 -1930)

Ilya Yefimovich Repin /Илья Ефимович Репин was a Russian realist painter. He was the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature. He played a major role in bringing Russian art into the mainstream of European culture.

His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1883) and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–1891).

Repin persistently searched for new techniques and content to give his work more fullness and depth. Repin had a set of favorite subjects, and a limited circle of people whose portraits he painted. But he had a deep sense of purpose in his aesthetics, and had the great artistic gift to sense the spirit of the age and its reflection in the lives and characters of individuals.

Albert Williams (1922-2010) Floral still-life painter

British painter🎨 Albert Williams was a painter of flowers in the tradition of the seventeenth century Flemish School of painters.

Williams was born in 1922 in Sussex, England. His father and grandfather were his first teachers.

As a boy in Brighton he attended Brighton School of Art, moving to London where he was employed by Sanderson's in their studio.

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859-1933) | Genre painter

Italian painter🎨 Vittorio Matteo Corcos was  known for genre works🎨 depict winsome and finely dressed young men and women, in moments of repose and recreation.

Born on October 4, 1859 in Livorno, Italy, he studied drawing and painting at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence under Enrico Pollastrini.

Between 1881-1886, he frequently exhibited at the Salon.

His works are held in the collections of the Uffizi in Florence and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome.

William Logsdail (1859-1944)

William Logsdail fu un pittore Britannico prolifico di paesaggi, ritratti e di genere - scene metropolitane su larga scala, in particolare monumenti di Londra.

Ha esposto alla Royal Academy, alla Royal Society of British Artists, alla Grosvenor Gallery, alla New Gallery (Londra) ed altri.

È famoso per le sue realistiche scene di Londra e Venezia e per il suo stile plein air.

Angelo Barabino (Italian painter, 1883-1950)

Angelo Barabino è stato un pittore Italiano🎨, dapprima Divisionista🎨-simbolista, poi esponente della corrente sociale, allievo di Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo. Amico del Pellizza, fu uno dei suoi allievi più fedeli, e come tale seguì il maestro anche nel suo passaggio dalla corrente Divisionista🎨 a quella sociale. Nel 1907, dopo la morte del Pellizza, completò un dipinto da lui incompiuto, "Il girotondo".

Nenad Mirkovich, 1951

Mirkovich, il cui nome Nenad nella sua lingua madre (serbo) significa "sorpresa", offre quell'elemento di sorpresa offre quell'elemento nei suoi dipinti di paesaggi tranquilli, coste fragorose, sinfonie pacifiche ed energici gruppi jazz.

Collezionisti di tutte le età e di diversi stili di vita trovano qualcosa nel variegato repertorio di Nenad Mirkovich per deliziare i sensi. Si delizia con le reazioni degli spettatori quando scoprono che lo stesso artista di talento ha dipinto tutte queste scene.

Nenad Mirkovich afferma, tuttavia, che i vari soggetti e gli stili che usa nel suo lavoro non sono così diversi come sembrano a prima vista.

Daniel Ridgway Knight | La sosta, 1890

Dopo i primi successi artistici di Daniel Ridgway Knight a Parigi, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissioner lo invitò a trasferirsi a Poissy, una città rurale non lontana dai confini della città.

Il famoso Meissonier è stato colpito dal talento di Ridgway Knight e ha offerto il suo consiglio protetto e una sfida: dipingere un'immagine di grandi dimensioni da un recente schizzo.

Ridgway Knight raggiunse audacemente l'obiettivo del suo mentore, e il conseguente dipinto del 1875, Les Laveuses (venduto in queste sale il 25 aprile 2006, lotto 142) lo mise in una nuova direzione, informando una serie di composizioni multi-figurali ambiziose e complesse, come il presente lavoro.

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Henri Fantin-Latour (French painter and lithographer, January 14, 1836 - August 25, 1904) - A collection of 111 paintings and lithographs.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Fantin-Latour see:

• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) | 111 artworks | Page 1🎨
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) | 111 artworks | Page 2🎨
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) | 111 artworks | Page 3🎨
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) | 111 artworks | Page 4🎨
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) | 111 artworks | Page 5🎨
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Henri Fantin-Latour | Cherries, 1883

Henri Fantin-Latour | Cherries, 1883 | Victoria and Albert Museum

"Cherries" is a fine example of Fantin-Latour's paintings of flower, a category in which he progressively specialised executing up to 500 floral compositions.

This painting shows a cherry branch with cherries and leaves whose bright red and green contrast against the plain white background.

This effect of light and colour are characteristic of the new naturalism developed in French art in the second half of the 19th century, which anticipate the Impressionists' new experimentations.

"Cherries" was probably painted in Paris in Fantin-Latour's studio.

It shows a branch of cherry tree with cherries and leaves, the motif being cut off on the edges.

It is one of the three paintings the South Kensington School of Design, now Victoria and Albert Museum, acquired as a model for its students.

They all share the characteristic of presenting a single plant rather than a bouquet, depicted without a vase or table, on a plain background.

Here the artist focused his attention on the contrast between the brilliant colours of the cherries and the almost white background, pervading the picture with a strong luminosity.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Self-Portrait, 1858

Henri Fantin-Latour | Self-Portrait, 1858 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

At the beginning of his career, between 1854 and 1861, Fantin-Latour executed a large number of self-portraits in chalk, charcoal, and oil.

This example reveals his fascination with the work of Rembrandt and Courbet, who both used broad, rich strokes of paint and depicted forms as if they were emerging from an enveloping darkness. | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Henri Fantin-Latour | Artworks | Page 3

Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group compositions of contemporary French classical composers and celebrities in the arts.

For other works by Fantin-Latour see:

• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) | 111 artworks | Page 1
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) | 111 artworks | Page 2