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Le Pont-Neuf (Renoir)
''Le Pont-Neuf'' is an 1872 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.Rubin, James H.(2008). ''Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology, and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh''. University of California Press. pp. 51-53. Background The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It was completed in 1607 by Henry IV. In 1867, French painters Claude Monet and Renoir first depicted the bridge in their series of riverbank paintings, returning to the subject again in 1872.Williams, Ellen (1997). ''The Impressionists' Paris: Walking Tours of the Painters' Studios, Homes, and the Sites They Painted''. New York Review of Books. pp. 32-35. . This time, they were painting in the turbulent aftermath of the Paris Commune uprising.Strieter, Terry W. (1999). ''Nineteenth-century European Art: A Topical Dictionary''. Greenwood Publishing Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau." He was the father of actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre. Life Youth Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, in 1841. His father, Léonard Renoir, was a tailor of modest means, so, in 1844, Renoir's family moved to Paris in search of more favorable prospects. The location of their home, in rue d’Argenteuil in central Paris, placed Renoir in proximity to the Louvre. Although the young Renoir had a natural proclivity for drawing, he exhibited a greater t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to ''plein air'' (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting '' Impression, soleil levant'', exhibited in the 1874 ("exhibition of rejects") initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon. Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted him to pursue a career in business. He was very close to his mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1872 Paintings
Year 187 ( CLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 940 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 187 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa. * Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest. By topic Religion * Olympianus succeeds Pertinax as bishop of Byzantium (until 198). Births * Cao Pi, Chinese emperor of the Cao Wei state (d. 226) * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paintings By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, narrative, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Paintings By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
This is an incomplete list of paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir painted about 4000 paintings that have sold at auction for as much as $78.1 million (in 1990). The largest collection of Renoir paintings is at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 1860–1869 1870–1879 }) , , 1870 , , , , São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil , - , , , '' Woman with Parakeet''(french: La femme à la perruche) , , 1871 , , , , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York , - , , , ''Charles Le Coeur'' , , c. 1872 , , , , Musée d'Orsay , , Paris , - , , , '' Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem)''(french: Parisiennes en costume algérien (Le Harem)) , , 1872 , , , , National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo , - , , , '' Le Pont-Neuf''('' :fr:Le Pont-Neuf'') , , 1872 , , , , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. , - , , , '' Madame Monet Lying on a Sofa''('' :fr:Madame Monet étendue sur un so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Durand-Ruel
Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionists and the Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he is known for his innovations in modernizing art markets, and is generally considered to be the most important art dealer of the 19th century. An ambitious entrepreneur, Durand-Ruel cultivated international interest in French artists by establishing art galleries and exhibitions in London, New York, Berlin, Brussels, among other places. Additionally, he played a role in the decentralization of art markets in France, which prior to the mid-19th century was monopolized by the Salon system. Early life and education Born Paul-Marie-Joseph Durand-Ruel in Paris, son of Jean Marie Fortuné Durand and Marie Ferdinande Ruel. His parents, who opened an art shop in 1839, used the Durand-Ruel name for the family business. In 1851, Paul e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Commune
The Paris Commune (french: Commune de Paris, ) was a revolutionary government that seized power in Paris, the capital of France, from 18 March to 28 May 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the French National Guard had defended Paris, and working-class radicalism grew among its soldiers. Following the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870 (under French chief executive Adolphe Thiers from February 1871) and the complete defeat of the French Army by the Germans by March 1871, soldiers of the National Guard seized control of the city on March 18. They killed two French army generals and refused to accept the authority of the Third Republic, instead attempting to establish an independent government. The Commune governed Paris for two months, establishing policies that tended toward a progressive, anti-religious system of social democracy, including the separation of church and state, self-policing, the remission of rent, the abolition of child l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1872 In Art
Events from the year 1872 in art. Events * February 20 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City. * June – American-born painter James McNeill Whistler exhibits '' Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother'', painted the previous year, at the 104th Royal Academy summer exhibition in London after the curator Sir William Boxall threatens to resign from the R.A. if it is rejected. * November 13 (07:35) ''(probable date)'' – Claude Monet begins painting ''Impression, Sunrise'' (''Impression, soleil levant'') as viewed from his hotel room at Le Havre. * November – Edward Lear acquires his cat Foss. *''date unknown'' **William De Morgan sets up an art pottery in Chelsea, London. **The first "Wallace fountains", to the design of sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg, are installed in Paris. **Lise Tréhot last models for Renoir. Works * Peter Nicolai Arbo – ''The Wild Hunt of Odin'' * Arnold Böcklin – '' Self-portrait with Death playing the fiddle'' * Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1867 In Art
Events from the year 1867 in art. Events * Exposition Universelle in Paris helps popularize Japanese woodblock prints in the West. * Engravings of William Holman Hunt's ''The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple'' by Auguste III Blanchard are published by dealer Ernest Gambart in London in editions totalling 13,000. Awards Works * Frédéric Bazille – approximate date ** ''Family Reunion'' ** '' The Little Gardener'' ** '' Portrait of Renoir'' * George Henry Boughton – ''Pilgrims Going To Church'' * William Burges – Narcissus washstand * Giuseppe Calì – ''Death of Dragut'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta) * Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs ** Carlyle Like a Rough Block of Michael Angelo's Sculpture' ** Profiles of Julie Jackson (her niece) * Frederic Edwin Church – ''Niagara Falls, from the American Side'' * Gustave Courbet – '' The kill of deer'' * Edgar Degas – ''The Bellelli Family'' completed (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) * Gustave Doré – engraved illustr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of the world. The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser colour, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark". But the process is slower, especially when one layer of paint needs to be allowed to dry before another is applied. The oldest known oil paintings were created by Buddhist artists in Afghanistan and date back to the 7th century AD. The technique of binding pigments in oil was later brought to Europe in the 15th century, about 900 years later. The adoption of oil paint by Europeans began with Early Netherlandish painting in Northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance, oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced the use of tempera paints in the majority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry IV Of France
Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. He was assassinated in 1610 by François Ravaillac, a Catholic zealot, and was succeeded by his son Louis XIII. Henry was the son of Jeanne III of Navarre and Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme. He was baptised as a Catholic but raised in the Protestant faith by his mother. He inherited the throne of Navarre in 1572 on his mother's death. As a Huguenot, Henry was involved in the French Wars of Religion, barely escaping assassination in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. He later led Protestant forces against the French royal army. Henry became king of France in 1589 upon the death of Henry III, his brother-in-law and distant cousin. He was the first Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1607 In France
Events from the year 1607 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Henry IV Events *Pont Neuf inaugurated in Paris *The rule of Andorra passes jointly to the king of France and the Bishop of Urgell *20 December – "Great Winter", 3 months of harsh weather, begins Births *10 January – Isaac Jogues, Jesuit priest and missionary (died 1646) *24 June – Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer, member of the Conseil d'État (died 1691) *10 July – Philippe Labbe, Jesuit writer (died 1667) *12 July – Jean Petitot, painter (died 1691). *between 31 October and 6 December – Pierre de Fermat, mathematician (died 1665) *15 November – Madeleine de Scudéry, writer (died 1701) *Full date missing – Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar (died 1660) Deaths *15 April – César de Bus, priest (born 1544) *17 May 17 – Anna d'Este, princess (born 1531) *5 September – Pomponne de Bellièvre, politician (born 1529) *7 or 9 September – Pomponne de Bellièvre Pomponne de Bellià ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
