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The Small Meadows In Spring, By
''The Small Meadows in Spring, By'' (French ''Les Petits Prés au printemps, By'') is an 1881 painting by Alfred Sisley, on loan from Tate Britain to the National Gallery since 1997. The location it shows is now paved, but was then a wooded path along the left bank of the Seine linking the villages of Veneux-les-Sablons and By, with Champagne-sur-Seine in the right background and a young girl just left of centre, probably the artist's twelve-year-old daughter Jeanne. The same path appears in mirror-image in his '' The Small Meadows at By, Stormy Weather''. Production In 1880 financial difficulties forced Sisley to leave Sèvres and in 1882 he set up home in Moret-sur-Loing to the south-east of Paris, where he spent the rest of his life. Before definitively settling in Moret, he also painted several works in the area around Veneux-les-Sablons. This also marked a turning-point in his oeuvre, giving his landscapes a vitality and incomparable freshness. It was catalogue number 35 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape ''en plein air'' (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs. Among his important works are a series of paintings of the River Thames, mostly around Hampton Court, executed in 1874, and landscapes depicting places in or near Moret-sur-Loing. The notable paintings of the Seine and its bridges in the former suburbs of Paris are like many of his landscapes, characterised by tranquillity, in pale shades of green, pink, purple, dusty blue and cream. Over the years Sisley's power of expression and colour intensity increased. Richard Shone: ''Sisley.'' London: Phaidon Press 1999. Biography Sisley was born in Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sèvres
Sèvres (, ) is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France region. The commune, which had a population of 23,251 as of 2018, is known for its famous porcelain production at the ''Manufacture nationale de Sèvres'', which was also where the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) was signed. Geography Situation Sèvres is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, to the southwest of the centre of Paris, with an eastern edge by the river Seine. The commune borders Île Seguin, an island in the Seine, in the commune of Boulogne-Billancourt, adjoining Sèvres. File:Map commune FR insee code 92072.png, Map of the commune File:Sèvres map.svg, View of the commune of Sèvres in red on the map of Paris and the "Petite Couronne" File:SEVRES - L'Embarcadaire.jpg, Banks of the Seine in the early 20th century. At that time, the river was an important transportation axis; river shuttles can be se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paintings By Alfred Sisley
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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Paintings By Alfred Sisley
This is an incomplete list of the paintings by the British Impressionist artist Alfred Sisley, who was born to British parents in France, where he subsequently spent the majority of his life. ;Timeline * 1839 Born in Paris * 1839–1870 Paris * 1870–1875 Louveciennes, Yvelines (visit to England, 1874) * 1875–1877 Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines * 1877–1880 Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine * 1880–1882 Veneux-les-Sablons, Seine-et-Marne * 1882–1899 Moret-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne (visit to Wales, 1897) * 1899 Died in Moret-sur-Loing 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s References {{Lists of paintings Lists of paintings, Sisley, Alfred Paintings by Alfred Sisley, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Fry
Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. He was the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and emphasised the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their representational content. He was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as "incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin ...In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry". The taste Fry influenced was primarily that of the Anglophone world, and his success lay largely in alerting an educated public to a compelling version of recent artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde. Life Born in London, the son of the judge Edward Fry, ... [...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] |
Hôtel Drouot
Hôtel Drouot is a large auction house in Paris, known for fine art, antiques, and antiquities. It consists of 16 halls hosting 70 independent auction firms, which operate under the umbrella grouping of Drouot. The firm's main location, called Drouot-Richelieu, is situated on the Rue Drouot in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, on a site once occupied by the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier. The nearest Métro station is Richelieu - Drouot. Other locations are Drouot-Montaigne, Drouot-Montmartre, and Drouot-Véhicules. Details of forthcoming auctions are published in the weekly ''Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot'', sold at newsstands and by subscription. In 2008 Hôtel Drouot was ranked fifth by sales amongst Paris auction houses, after Sotheby's, Christie's, Artcurial, and Ader-Picard-Tajan. History The Hôtel Drouot was inaugurated on 1 June 1852. From 1976 to 1980, while its present building was being constructed, sales took place in the former Gare d'Orsay. In 2000, reform of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moret-sur-Loing
Moret-sur-Loing (, literally ''Moret on Loing'') is a former commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is situated on the river Loing, close to its confluence with the Seine. Moret–Veneux-les-Sablons station has rail connections to Montargis, Melun, Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Laroche-Migennes and Paris. On 1 January 2015, Moret-sur-Loing and Écuelles merged becoming one commune called Orvanne, which merged into the new commune Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne on 1 January 2016. 29 October 2015 The town was a source of inspiration for , |
The Small Meadows At By, Stormy Weather
''The Small Meadows at By, Stormy Weather'' (D. 405) is a painting by Alfred Sisley, now in the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Meudon. It shows in mirror image the same path as in his '' The Small Meadows in Spring, By '' (1881). It was rediscovered in a private home in Kölblöd, Bavaria, Germany in 1949 after being stolen or bought on the black market by Hermann Brandl. See also * List of paintings by Alfred Sisley References {{DEFAULTSORT:Small Meadows at By, Stormy Weather Paintings by Alfred Sisley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Gallery, London
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director of the National Gallery is Gabriele Finaldi. The National Gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Its collection belongs to the government on behalf of the British public, and entry to the main collection is free of charge. Unlike comparable museums in continental Europe, the National Gallery was not formed by nationalising an existing royal or princely art collection. It came into being when the British government bought 38 paintings from the heirs of John Julius Angerstein in 1824. After that initial purchase, the Gallery was shaped mainly by its early directors, especially Charles Lock Eastlake, and by private donations, which now account for two-thirds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Shone
Richard Shone (born 1949) is a British art historian and art critic specializing in British modern art, and from 2003–15 was the editor of ''The Burlington Magazine''. Career At age 16, Shone was already well enough connected in the British art world that Duncan Grant introduced him to his neighbor Lydia Lopokova, the widow of John Maynard Keynes, at her and Keynes's house, where Shone saw work by Seurat, Cézanne, Delacroix, Picasso, Braque and Grant himself. Having obtained a BA in English from the University of Cambridge in 1971, Shone was through the 1970s and 1980s a prolific reviewer in the art press - ''The Burlington Magazine'', ''Art Review'', ''Artforum'' - as well as a contributor on literature and biography to ''The Spectator'' and ''The Guardian''. Shone curated several exhibitions dedicated to British art, such as Walter Sickert’s portraits at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath (1990); a full Sickert retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Champagne-sur-Seine
Champagne-sur-Seine () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Demographics The inhabitants are called ''Champenois''. See also *Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Seine-et-Marne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
