mercredi 24 mai 2023

Giovanni Bellini

 Giovanni Bellini  v.1435-1516


 Giovanni Bellini -Annonciation,vers 1464-1465

Giovanni Bellini -Annonciation,vers 1464-1465
Tempera et or sur bois
Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza,Madrid




dimanche 14 mai 2023

El Greco - Saint Francis receiving the stigma,1590-1595.

El  Greco 1541-1614


El Greco - Saint Francis receiving the stigma,1590-1595.

El Greco - Saint Francis receiving the stigma,1590-1595.
Oil on canvas - 






El Greco - Saint Francis receiving the stigma,1585-1590.
Oil on canvas - 102 x 97 cm


Caravaggio 1571-1610 ,A contemporary of El Greco :

Caravaggio’s ‘remarkable’ Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, c1595.


Caravaggio’s ‘remarkable’ Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, c1595. © 
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art





mercredi 10 mai 2023

Aelbert Cuyp

 Aelbert Cuyp 1620-1691

Dordrecht

Claude Lorrain




Aelbert Cuyp - lady and gentleman on horseback,1655.

Aelbert Cuyp - lady and gentleman on horseback,1655.
oil on canvas - 123 x 172 cm



Metropolitan Museum of Art


Avenue at Meerdervoort















samedi 15 avril 2023

Suzanne Valadon

 Suzanne Valadon 1865-1938


Suzanne Valadon - La chambre bleue,1923.

Suzanne Valadon - La chambre bleue,1923.
huile sur toile - 90 x 116 cm

Suzanne Valadon - Portrait de famille,1912.

Suzanne Valadon - Portrait de famille,1912.
huile sur toile - 98 x 73,5 cm
Musée d'Orsay


Suzanne Valadon - 
huile sur toile
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,N.Y.


Henri de Toulouse Lautrec - La grosse Marie
Venus de Montmartre
( Suzanne Valadon comme modèle)




Suzanne Valadon - Adam et Eve
huile sur toile

Il s'agit de Suzanne Valadon et de son amant 
le peintre André Utter de 20 ans son cadet.

Suzanne Valadon -Marie Coca et sa fille,1913.

Suzanne Valadon -Marie Coca et sa fille,1913.
huile sur toile







mercredi 22 mars 2023

Paul Cezanne - Bathers '(les grandes baigneuses)

 Paul Cezanne 1839-1906


Paul Cezanne- Bathers ( les grandes baigneuses)

Paul Cezanne- Bathers ( les grandes baigneuses)
Oil on canvass- about 1894-1905
The National Gallery,London



Around 200 of Cézanne’s works depict male and female nude bathers, either singly or in groups, in a landscape. The earliest dates from the 1870s. This large painting is one of three pictures of female bathers that Cézanne worked on during the final decade of his life. The largest of all his paintings, they represent the culmination of his lifelong investigation of this subject and the climax of his entire career. They were hugely influential on early twentieth-century modern art, particularly Cubism, and had a lasting impact on Picasso and Matisse.

The precise dating of the pictures is difficult. It’s possible that Cézanne worked simultaneously on all three canvases, beginning in the mid-1890s and continuing until his death in 1906, as each shows evidence of reworking. The first of the three, possibly begun in 1895 and of a similar size to the National Gallery’s picture, is now in the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. The National Gallery’s painting is generally acknowledged to be the second to have been started. It may date from 1898–9 and was finished in 1905. As he worked on the picture, Cézanne decided to reduce the area of sky and folded the top of the canvas over the stretcher on which it was mounted, which only became apparent when the picture was re-stretched long after his death. The third picture is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and relates most closely to the work in the National Gallery. Perhaps painted relatively quickly in the last months of Cézanne’s life, it was left unfinished with areas of canvas still showing through.

jeudi 16 mars 2023

Nicolas Poussin - La fuite en Egypte

 Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665

  Nicolas Poussin - La fuite en Egypte,1657-58

Nicolas Poussin - La fuite en Egypte,1657-58
huile sur toile - 98 x 133 cm

Manet -Argenteuil

 Edouard Manet 1832-1883


Edouard Manet -Argenteuil,1874.

Edouard Manet -Argenteuil,1874.
huile sur toile - 149x114 cm

Argenteuil correspond à une des premières toiles impressionniste de l'artiste.

Un journaliste Du Figaro dit:" Au fond, une marmelade d'Argenteuil sur un fleuve d'indigo."