Frida kahlo

Self Portrait 1932

The  Two Frida

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

en savoir plus (  link )

Marcel Gromaire

Nu au Balcon, 1933, huile sur toile, 100 x 81 cm, coll. particulière ©Galerie de la Présidence

 Etude de nu au manteau

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) - Sitwell family

Sitwell Family; From left: Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), Sir George Sitwell, Lady Ida, Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988), and Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969)

Edith Wharton - the house of mirth

Edith Wharton  1862-1937


une biographie interessante ( link )


une autre  ( link  )  


Chez les heureux du monde (The House of Mirth) 1905

Dickens' Dream - Robert W. Buss (1804-1875)

Dickens' Dream - Robert W. Buss (1804-1875) 

Robert William Buss was hired by Dickens' publishers, Chapman and Hall, to provide two illustrations for Pickwick after the original illustrator, Robert Seymour, committed suicide. The publishers were disappointed with the illustrations provided by Buss and the job went to Hablot Browne. Buss, however, remained a lifelong admirer of Dickens and produced several painting celebrating the author's work. The watercolor, Dickens' Dream, showing the author surrounded by the characters he created, was done after Dickens death in 1870. Buss himself did not live to complete the painting. 

Charles Dickens- The Pickwick Papers

Christmas Eve at Mr Wardle's. Mr Pickwick kisses a lady under the mistletoe bough., From Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Illustration by Phiz or Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882/British)


Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club  was published in twenty instalments

20 Monthly parts: April 1836 – November 1837

HUILE DE CLAIRE ASTAIX : INTÉRIEUR ROUGE

Claire Astaix  (   link    )

Claire Astaix - paintings

Claire Astaix

Andreas Staier - Bach's Goldberg Variations

Francisco de Goya - Charles IV of Spain and His Family

Francisco de Goya (1748-1828)

'The Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield

le texte complet  (full text)  : http://www.lamaquinadeltiempo.com/mansfield/04dollh.htm

 le texte lu ( audio ): http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2010/dec/07/margaret-drabble-katherine-mansfield

Leonardo da Vinci - Lady with an Ermine

 

Lady with an Ermine (  link )by Leonardo da Vinci.
Oil on wood panel, 54 × 39 cm

the panel is depicting Cecilia Gallerani,

 mistress of Ludovico Sforza, ruler of Milan and patron of Leonardo

Hans Memling - A Man holding a Coin of Emperor Nero, ca. 1473-74

Hans Memling, Portrait of a Man with a Coin of the Emperor Nero, 1473

(Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp)

Oil on panel,31x23,2 cm

Hans Memling (1435-1440 1494) - Crucifixion

Hans Memling (1435-1440 1494) - Vanité

Polyptyque de la Vanité et de la Rédemption terrestre
Vers 1490
Peinture sur bois: 6 panneaux; 20 x 13 cm (chacun)
Né en Allemagne, Memling est un des fondateurs de l’école de Bruges où il s’installa. Il y créa un art fait d’élégance, de clarté et d’équilibre. Sa renommée s’étendit de son vivant à l’Italie avant de culminer au temps du Romantisme.
Dans le Ciel est représenté le Christ en gloire, le Salvator Mundi. La Vanité est figurée par une jeune femme tenant un miroir. Cette figure nue est la plus célèbre du polyptyque, bien que la présence de sandales à ses pieds intrigue. Les deux lévriers qui l’accompagnent ont une symbolique érotique, renforçant la force de ce nu. Son miroir est emblème de Luxure. Il faut y voir une réminiscence d’Eve, ou de Bethsabée, à la source du péché et elle doit être mise en relation avec le transi de la Mort.
Memling a le talent raffiné d’un miniaturiste dans le traitement des détails mais aussi le souffle et l’ampleur pour aborder la mort et son spectacle désolant. La lecture se fait pas à pas, de l’exhortation à fuir les bien tentants plaisirs terrestres pour atteindre le Jugement dernier et éventuellement le Paradis. A côté du Salvator Mundi, l’Enfer perd de son caractère effroyable. Mais la méditation moralisante sur la mort et le salut éternel n’excluaient ni la contemplation des activités terrestres ni la fierté de son commanditaire.

World's most expensive book sells for £7.3m

John James Audubon's Birds of America at Sotheby's in London before its sale for a world record £7.3m.

John James Audubon

The Guardian comment cartoon

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2010/dec/06/vince-cable-tuition-fees-rowson

Martin Rowson on Vince Cable's change of heart over tuition fees

Hokusai - Le rêve de la femme du pêcheur

Hokusai 1760–1849

 Hokusai - Le rêve de la femme du pêcheur,1820

peintre de l'époque Edo 1603-1867

époque Meiji 1868-1912

Caravaggio -Sette opere di Misericordia.

Michelangelo Merisi, dit le Caravage ( link )
(Caravaggio, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610)

Les sept oeuvres de miséricorde,

 huile sur toile. 390 cm × 260 cm 
Pio Monte della Misericordia,Naples,

Style Baroque - peinture religieuse , Naples (Italie) , 1607

Bartholomeus van der Helst

Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster

Oil on canvas, 232 × 547 cm (91.34 × 215.35 in),1648

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 

Nicolas de Largillierre - Partridg in a Niche

Largilliere, Nicolas de (1656-1746) - 1680-85 Partridg in a Niche (Musee du Petit Palais, Paris)

Nicolas de Largillière was born in Paris. A failed attempt at business led him to the studio of Goubeau. However, Largillière left at the age of eighteen to seek his fortune in England, where he was befriended and employed by Lely, for four years at Windsor. The fury aroused by the Rye House Plot against Roman Catholics alarmed Largillière. He left for Paris where he was well received by Le Brun and Van der Meulen. His reputation was soon established. Largillière's brilliant colour and lively touch attracted celebrities of his day—actresses, public men and popular preachers flocked to his studio. He became a member of the Academy in 1686 and ultimately its Director. His principal rival was Rigaud, but Largillière specialized in portraits of the wealthy middle classes, leaving the aristocrats to Rigaud. By the late 1680s, Largillière had established his reputation among the bourgeoisie. He produced 1,200 to 1,500 portraits in his lifetime, gradually becoming less formal and more relaxed in describing pose and costume. He also painted group portraits to commemorate solemn occasions, landscapes, still lifes, and religious works.

Jean-Baptiste Oudry -

Oudry, Jean Baptiste (1686-1755) - 1725 Dog Pointing a Partridge (Hermitage, St. Petersburg)

French painter, tapestry designer, and illustrator. He was a pupil of Largillière and painted some portraits, but he is renowned chiefly as one of the outstanding animal painters of the 18th century. With Desportes he was the foremost exponent of hunting scenes and still-life with dead game. Some of his best work was done as a tapestry designer, and he was head of the Beauvais and Gobelins factories from 1734 and 1736 respectively. He also did book illustrations, notably for an edition of La Fontaine's Fables (1755). His son Jacques-Charles (1720-78), a flower and animal painter, sometimes collaborated with him.

Jean-Baptiste Oudry - Le Limier (Huntsman with a Tufter on a Leash)

Oil on canvas

height: 99.5 cm

width: 79 cm

Jean-Baptiste Oudry - Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers, 1724

Jean-Baptiste Oudry 1686_1755

Oil on canvas
55 3/4 x 57 in. (141.6 x 144.8 cm)

Art nstitute of Chicago

Anders Zorn -Girls from Dalarna in the sauna

Anders Zorn (1860-1920)

Selfportrait with model,1896

Oil on canvas

Nationalmuseum,Stockholm,Sweden

Oil on canvas, 1906

Nationalmuseum,Stockholm,Sweden

François Boucher - le triomphe de Vénus- 1740

François Boucher 1703-1770 - le triomphe de Vénus- 1740

huile sur toile,130x162 cm

Nationalmuseum,Stockholm