Erté | Art Déco painter / sculptor

Romain de Tirtoff /Роман Петрович Тыртов (1892-1990) was a Russian / French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté.

Tirtoff was born as Roman Petrov de Tyrtov in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in a very distinguished family with roots traced back to 1548.

His father Pyotr Ivanovich de Tyrtov was a Fleet Admiral.

In 1910-1912 Romain moved to Paris to pursue a career as a designer.

This decision was made over strong objections of his father, who wanted Romain to continue a family tradition and to become a naval officer.

Claude Monet | Autumn Effect at Argenteuil, 1873

Artist: Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Title: Autumn Effect at Argenteuil

Object type: painting

Date: 1873

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 55 × 74.5 cm (21.6 × 29.3 in)

Current location: Courtauld Institute of Art

Claude Monet | Argenteuil, veduta del braccio piccolo della Senna, 1872

Durante il XIX ed il XX secolo, in particolare, la Senna ha ispirato molti artisti.

La Senna è uno dei principali fiumi della Francia. La lunghezza approssimativa del fiume è di 776,6 km, le sue fonti sono in Borgogna, a 470 m d'altitudine, a Saint-Germain-Source-Seine sull'altopiano di Langres, e la foce è nella Manica, a Nord della Francia, presso Le Havre.

Le sorgenti della Senna furono acquisite in proprietà dalla città di Parigi nel 1864.

Claude Monet | Flowered Riverbank, Argenteuil, 1877

"Flowered Riverbank, Argenteuil" is an oil painting created in 1889 by French painter Claude Monet.

The painting is in the collection of the Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan.

In 1872, Monet moved to Argenteuil, a town along the Seine River 10 km northwest of Paris, where he lived until January 1878.

Argenteuil, which was connected to Paris by the opening of the railway in 1851, was a popular leisure spot for people to play in the river, but it was rapidly industrialized.

Claude Monet | Pommiers en Fleurs, 1878

The most consistently explorative of all the Impressionists, more than any artists of the period, Monet represents the movement and all it stood for.

A steady and persistent worker, independent of the necessity of waiting on 'inspiration', he found a prop for creativity in 'serialism', the creation of sets of work using the same motif; thus emphasising that a whole range of equally 'real' paintings could be made of the same subject, each varying according to the quality of light and weather conditions.

Eugène Jules Delahogue | Les petits jardiniers, 1906

"Les petits jardiniers" was created in 1906 by Jules Eugene Delahogue (1867-1930), an French Orientalist painter, best known for his traditional scenes and landscapes.

Jules Eugene Delahogue is the twin brother of Orientalist painter Alexis Auguste Delahogue (1867-1950).

Claude Monet | The Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam, 1874

"The Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam (Looking up the Groenburgwal)" was created in 1874 by French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) in Impressionism style.

The painting is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania.

Title: The Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam (Looking up the Groenburgwal)

Author: Claude Monet - French Impressionist painter (1840-1926);

Geography: Probably made in Netherlands, Europe;