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Laurent Guétal
Laurent Guétal, also known as the Abbé Guétal (12 December 1841, Vienne (Isère), Vienne - 18 February 1892, Grenoble) was a French landscape painter and Catholic priest. Life and work He was ordained a priest in 1862, and spent much of his life at the Petit Séminaire of Rondeau, near Grenoble. Most of his works were painted in that vicinity. His primary stylistic influence came from Jean Achard (painter), Jean Achard, but he eventually adopted a more purely Realism (arts), realistic approach. He was associated with the École de Crozant, and was one of the first members of the , a school of landscape painters in the Dauphiné, which included Ernest Victor Hareux and Charles Bertier.''Le sentiment de la Montagne'', exhibition catalog, Glénat Editions, Glénat / Musée de Grenoble, 1998 He was a regular exhibitor at the Salon (Paris), Salon in Paris, from 1882 to 1889. One of his best known works, depicting the Lac de l'Eychauda, received an award there in 1886, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exposition Universelle (1889)
The Exposition Universelle of 1889 () was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 5 May to 31 October 1889. It was the fourth of eight expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937. It attracted more than thirty-two million visitors. The most famous structure created for the Exposition, and still remaining, is the Eiffel Tower. Organization The Exposition was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, which marked the beginning of French Revolution, and was also seen as a way to stimulate the economy and pull France out of an economic recession. The Exposition attracted 61,722 official exhibitors, of whom twenty-five thousand were from outside of France. Admission price Admission to the Exposition cost forty centimes, at a time when the price of an "economy" plate of meat and vegetables in a Paris cafe was ten centimes. Visitors paid an additional price for several of the Exposition's most popular attractions. Climbing the Eiffel Towe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Landscape Painters
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19th-century French Painters
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1892 Deaths
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1841 Births
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Joconde
Joconde is the central database created in 1975 and now available online, maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, for objects in the collections of the main French public and private museums listed as ''Musées de France'', according to article L. 441-1 of the ''Code du patrimoine'' amounting to more than 1,200 institutions. "La Joconde" is the French name of the ''Mona Lisa'', which like about half of the collections of the Louvre, is included in the database, as one of 295 items by, after, or connected with Leonardo da Vinci; of these, only 42 works are by Leonardo da Vinci, including 6 paintings. By November 2012, Joconde contained over 475,000 object online and over 290,000 with images, from 366 collections in France, including 209,350 drawings, 63,547 paintings, 34,561 prints, 34,102 sculptures or 16,631 costumes and their accessories and is still expanding. By June 2022 it counted 636,405 objects. The database is not only dedicated to the information of the publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revue Des Deux Mondes
The ''Revue des deux Mondes'' (, ''Review of the Two Worlds'') is a monthly French-language literary, cultural and current affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829. According to its website, "it is today the place for debates and dialogues between nations, disciplines and cultures, about the major subjects of our societies". The main shareholder is Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière's FIMALAC Group. History The ''Revue des deux Mondes'' was founded by Prosper Mauroy and Pierre de Ségur-Dupeyron, first appearing on 1 August 1829. It began when an anodyne periodical, ''Journal des voyages,'' was purchased by the young printer Auguste-Jean Auffray, who convinced his college roommate François Buloz to edit it. Its original emphasis on travel and foreign affairs soon shifted; according to its website, it was created to "establish a cultural, economic and political bridge between France and the United States", the Old World and the New. It was purchased in 1831 by Franço ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Lafenestre
Georges Lafenestre (5 May 1837, Orléans - 19 May 1919, Bourg-la-Reine) was a French poet, art critic and art historian. Biography His career was devoted to administering the fine arts, as a Conservator at the Louvre, and a member of the Institut de France, where he bequeathed a significant collection of photographs of Italian art to the Institut's museum. In 1866, he married Isabelle Bénédite, née Lisbonne (born 1840), the widow of businessman Samuel Bénédite (c.1826-1865); mother of Georges Bénédite and Léonce Bénédite, who followed their step-father into the fields of art history and curation. Together, they had a son named Pierre, who apparently died as a child. He was a close friend of Jose-Maria de Heredia, who later became the librarian at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, and made the acquaintance of several other Parnassians through him. This, in turn, made the publisher Alphonse Lemerre aware of his work, and he was invited to participate in creating the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Roch Cemetery
Saint Roch Cemetery (french: Cimetière Saint-Roch) is the first municipal cemetery in the city of Grenoble, France. It was blessed by the bishop of Grenoble Claude Simon on 19 August 1810.According to web site of Association Saint-Roch ! Vous avez dit cimetière ? It is the largest cemetery in the city with . Located on the rue du Souvenir, alongside the Isère, in the district of Île Verte, it is the city's only intramural cemetery, currently containing 25,000 graves over an area of . The city has another cemetery, that of Grand Sablon, in the adjacent city of La Tronche. Among those buried here are political leaders, military personnel, scientists and artists. The most important tombs however are of manufacturers of gloves. The sculptors Victor Sappey, Henri Ding, Eustache Bernard, Aimé Charles Irvoy and Urbain Basset are also buried here. Many mayors of the city since the French Revolution are buried in this cemetery, from Joseph-Marie de Barral, mayor in 1790, to Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allevard
Allevard (; also known as Allevard-les-Bains) is a commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Allevardins'' or ''Allevardines'' or alternatively as ''Allevardais'' or ''Allevardaises'' The commune has been awarded two flowers by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of Cities and Villages in Bloom. Geography Allevard is located in the Belledonne mountains 40 km south-east of Chambéry and 38 km north-east of Grenoble. The commune is accessed by the D525 from Goncelin in the south-west following the mountain ridge through the village and continuing north-east to La Chapelle-du-Bard. There are also some minor roads such as the D9 parallel to the D525 going to the north and the D108 which accesses the village from the D525. There is a tortuous mountain road - the D109 - which goes east of the village and eventually circles back to the north of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée De Grenoble
The Museum of Grenoble (french: Musée de Grenoble) is a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in the city of Grenoble in the Isère region of France. Located on the left bank of the Isère River, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient art for its collections of modern and contemporary art. Thanks to the action of one of its curators of the interwar period (Andry-Farcy), it is considered the very first museum of modern art in France. Its temporary rooms allow it to organize two exhibitions each year. History The Museum of Grenoble was founded on 16 February 1798 by Louis-Joseph Jay, well before other French provincial museums. That day, an order of the local administration detailed the creation of a ''museum'' in Grenoble, in which article 10 stipulated that « the citizen Louis-Joseph Jay is appointed curator of this museum. » In May of that year, the Interior Minister canceled the creation of the museum but a provisional authorization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
