Paul Sérusier

Paul Sérusier 1864-1927

Paul Sérusier - Le talisman,1888.

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840
peinture romantique allemande

Caspar David Friederich, Moine au bord de la mer
1808-1809, huile sur toile, 110x171cm
Berlin, Staatliche Museen

Caspar David Friedrich - Le voyageur contemplant une mer de nuages,1818.

Huile sur toile 74.8 x 94.8 cm.

Hambourg Kunsthalle

Arnold Böcklin

Arnold Böcklin 1858-1925 peintre suisse
L'île des morts ( die Toteninsel)

Arnold Böcklin - L'île des morts,1896.

Die Toteninsel
Arnold Böcklin, 1896
huile sur toile 80 × 150 cm 
Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste

Il existe cinq versions différentes de la toile réalisées par Arnold Böcklin à différentes périodes :

• en 1880, conservée au Kunstmuseum de Bâle (Suisse).
• en 1880, conservée au Metropolitan Museum of Art à New York (USA)
• en 1883, conservée à la Alte Nationalgalerie à Berlin (Allemagne)
• en 1884, détruite lors du bombardement de Rotterdam (Seconde Guerre mondiale)
• en 1886, conservée au Museum der bildenden Künste à Leipzig (Allemagne)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - jeunes filles au bord de la mer.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes 1824-1898

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - jeunes filles au bord de la mer,1879.

Proust - A la recherche du temps perdu

Marcel Proust 1871-1922

Du côté de chez Swann 1913
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Le premier tome de La Recherche fut refusé par plusieurs éditeurs, dont Gallimard, avant d'être publié par Grasset à compte d'auteur le 14 novembre 1913.La Recherche fut publiée entre 1913 et 1927.
 À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, obtiendra le prix Goncourt en 1919. 

Joshua Reynolds

Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792
il fut le premier président de la Royal Academy of Arts,1768.

Joshua Reynolds - Mrs Margaret Desenfans

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Marking the bicentenary of Margaret Desenfans's (1731-1813) death, Dulwich Picture Gallery will host a a special display to celebrate the life of one of the Gallery’s founders.

Joshua Reynolds' magnificent portrait of Margaret - the only known image of her to date - will form the centrepiece to this display. Although the portrait had been listed as part of her husband’s collection in 1791, it was to remain in her own family’s collection until it was sold at auction in 1930. Assumed lost for over 70 years, many attempts were made by the Gallery to source its whereabouts, but to no avail. Reynold’s portrait finally re-emerged in 2002 when the Chief Curator was contacted by its current owner, who generously agreed to lend the painting to the Gallery.

Margaret Desenfans (neé Morris), the daughter of a wealthy Welsh entrepreneur, married the paintings collector and dealer Noël Desenfans in 1776. It was her substantial fortune that kickstarted her husband’s career and led to the acquisition of the majority of the paintings seen in the Gallery’s Permanent Collection today. When plans to build the Gallery were in jeopardy due to lack of funding in 1811, Margaret stepped forward and provided the missing funds, enabling the architect John Soane to build Britain’s first ever purpose-built public art gallery.

Her role was not just a financial one, however. Margaret contributed a lasting legacy to the Gallery by donating her fine collection of furniture and establishing a tradition of Royal Academician visits to monitor the welfare of her husband’s paintings. The display will also feature an original accounts book and a selection of silverware donated by Margaret to the Gallery, along with items of furniture which belonged to her, to exemplify the significance of her personal contribution to Dulwich Picture Gallery.

This display will rightly restore Margaret’s reputation as the remarkable woman she was, and a key figure in the founding of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Where the other two founders, Noël Desenfans and Francis Bourgeois, had the vision, it was Margaret, a lady of practical enterprise, who had the drive to bring their ideas into fruition

Joshua Reynolds - Henry Vansittart.

Huile sur toile,1703-1704.

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto No. 1 (Mstislav Rostropovich)