Tag: France

The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, the only work by Jan van Eyck (about 1390/95–1441) to be held in France, is one of the Louvre’s master paintings. Jan van Eyck (Netherlands, about 1390/95–1441) Madonna of Chancellor Rolin oil on panel 66 x 62 cm Painted circa 1435 Collection of Musée du Louvre, Paris To celebrate the ...

A metal sculpture "Bouquet of Tulips" by American artist Jeff Koons (America, B. 1955) located outside the Petit Palais in Paris, France. It is one of Koons's largest sculptures and his first commemorative work. The sculpture was first announced in 2016 and unveiled in October 2019.

Invitation to a Vietnamese art exhibition "La colle du phénix et le fil de soie brisé: œuvres vietnamiennes majeures de la collection Melchior Dejouany" ("Phoenix Glue and Silk Thread: major Vietnamese works from Melchior Dejouany Collection") at Christie's Paris, 9 Avenue Matignon, Paris, France, with no fewer than nine artists, including Le Pho, Mai Trung ...

Rue Delambre and the plaques of Gauguin, Breton, and Hemingway. Hotel Delambre - where Paul Gauguin, André Breton, and Maurice Le Scouezec stayed in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, noted mostly for his colourful paintings that he created during the ten years he lived in Tahiti in French ...

Saint-François-Xavier, Paris, France - The church where Le Pho had his death ceremony in 2021. Le Pho had converted to Catholicism and taken as his baptismal name "Victor", the first name of his beloved master, Victor Tardieu.

Gustave Caillebotte (France, 1848–1894) In A Cafe oil on canvas 153 x 114 cm Painted in 1880 Collection of Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France It was at the fifth Impressionist exhibition that Caillebotte presented this café scene, a painting of modern life. A life-size male figure dominates the scene. It's a model who's been painted ...

Edgar Degas (France, 1834–1917) L'Absinthe (The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) oil on canvas 92 × 68 cm. (36.2 × 26.8 in.) Painted in 1875–1876 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Edgar Degas chose as his subject a very popular drink at the end of the 19th century: absinthe. This is how the painting is often ...

Nicolas Poussin (France, 1594–1665) Et in Arcadia ego (Les bergers d'Arcadie or The Arcadian Shepherds) oil on canvas 85 × 121 cm. (34.25 × 47.24 in.) painted in 1637–1638 Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France Nicolas Poussin – The leading painter of the classical French Baroque style A 17th-century painter, depicts a landscape in Arcadia, a mountainous ...

Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798–1863) La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty Leading the People) oil on canvas 260 × 325 cm. (102.4 × 128.0 in.) painted in 1830 Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France Eugène Delacroix's "Liberty Guiding the People" leaves the Louvre for restoration In 2019, the Paris museum launched a major restoration campaign for ...

The Invention of Language: Shared Revolution of Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso An exhibition at Paris’s Musée du Luxembourg traces the relationship between the American writer and the Spanish painter and their influences on 20th-century art and marks the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death in a place generally devoted to the broadly appealing celebration of ...