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Mirabeau Replying To Dreux-Brézé
''Mirabeau Replying to Dreux-Brézé'' or ''Mirabeau Before Dreux-Brézé'' is a c.1830 oil on canvas by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard showing Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Mirabeau's response to Henri-Évrard de Dreux-Brézé (sent by Louis XVI to split up the Estates General of 1789) in the immediate aftermath of the Tennis Court Oath. It is now in the Louvre Museum, which bought it in 1984. History Fragonard submitted the work as an oil sketch entry to the July Monarchy's 1830 competition to decorate the meeting hall of the Chamber of Deputies of France, Chambre des députés. Other entrants included Paul Chenavard (now in the musée Carnavalet), Charles de Steuben (now in a private collection), Joseph-Désiré Court (now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen) and Eugène Delacroix (now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek). Fragonard's entry was ajudged to be too theatrical and dramatic and he did not win the competition. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mirabeau Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirabeau Répondant à Dreux-Brézé
Mirabeau may refer to: People * Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715–1789), French physiocrat * Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749–1791), renowned orator, a figure in the French Revolution and son of Victor * André Boniface Louis Riqueti de Mirabeau (1754–1792), also known as ''Barrel Mirabeau'', brother of Honoré * Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), second President of the Republic of Texas Places * 8169 Mirabeau, a minor planet * Mirabeau, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a commune of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France * Mirabeau, Vaucluse, a commune of Vaucluse, France * Le Bignon-Mirabeau, a commune of Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France * Les Pennes-Mirabeau, a commune of Bouches-du-Rhône, France Other uses * Le Mirabeau, a high-rise building in Monaco * Mirabeau (company), a Dutch company * Mirabeau (Paris Métro), a station on Paris Métro, France * Mirabeau restaurant, Dublin, operated 1972–1984 by Seán Kinsella * Mirabeau, a sector on the north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Carnavalet
The Musée Carnavalet () in Paris is dedicated to the History of Paris, history of the city. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann, the civil servant who transformed Paris in the latter half of the 19th century, the Hôtel Carnavalet was purchased by the Municipal Council of Paris in 1866; it was opened to the public in 1880. By the latter part of the 20th century, the museum was full to capacity. The Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau was annexed to the Carnavalet and opened to the public in 1989. The building, an historic monument from the 16th century, contains furnished rooms from different periods of Paris history, historic objects, and a very large collection of paintings of Paris life; it features works by artists including Joos van Cleve, Joos Van Cleve, Frans Pourbus the Younger, Jacques-Louis David, Hippolyte Lecomte, François Gérard, Louis-Léopold Boilly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paintings Of The French Revolution
Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush. Other implements, such as palette knives, sponges, airbrushes, the artist's fingers, or even a dripping technique that uses gravity may be used. One who produces paintings is called a painter. 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 other materials, in single or multiple form, including sand, clay, paper, cardboard, newspaper, plaster, gold leaf, and even entire objects. Painting is an important form of visual arts, visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, Composition (visual art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Paintings
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1830 Paintings
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Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek ("ny" means "new" in Danish; "Glyptotek" comes from the Greek root ''glyphein'', to carve, and ''theke'', storing place), commonly known simply as Glyptoteket, is an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. The collection represents the private art collection of Carl Jacobsen (1842–1914), the son of the founder of the Carlsberg Breweries. Primarily a sculpture museum, as indicated by the name, the focal point of the museum is antique sculpture from the ancient cultures around the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, including Egypt, Rome and Greece, as well as more modern sculptures such as a collection of Auguste Rodin's works, considered to be the most important outside France. However, the museum is equally noted for its collection of paintings that includes an extensive collection of impressionism, French impressionists and Post-Impressionism, Post-impressionists as well as Golden Age of Danish Painting, Danish Golden Age paintings. The French Collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French people, French Romanticism, Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism'', p. 58, Tate Publishing, 2003. In contrast to the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the Sublim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Rouen
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen () is an art museum in Rouen, in Normandy in north-western France. It was established by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1801, and is housed in a building designed by and built between 1877, and 1888. Its collections include paintings, sculptures, drawings and objets d'art. History The museum was established by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1801. The museum building was built between 1877, and 1888 to designs by . The collections include paintings, sculptures, drawings and objets d'art from the Renaissance to the present day, including a collection of Russian icons dating from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century, and some 8000 drawings. The Depeaux collection of Impressionist works was donated to the museum in 1909. The Rouen Museum of Fine Arts is one of the main regional museums in France6. It is located in the heart of the city, opposite Square Verdrel, in a building whose complete renovation was completed in 1994. In addition to the prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph-Désiré Court
Joseph-Désiré Court (14 September 1797, Rouen – 23 January 1865, Paris) was a French painter of historical subjects and portraits. Life and work He was a descendant of the portrait painter Hyacinthe Rigaud and displayed an early interest in art. His first studies were with , at a drawing school established by Descamps' father, Jean-Baptiste. Following that, he worked at the studios of Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris. His allowance from his family was not quite enough for his needs, so he painted small pictures, which he sold through an agent. Despite this, he was unable to save enough money to continue his studies in Rome. Hoping that he could go at the expense of the state, he competed for the Prix de Rome and, in 1821, was awarded a prize for his depiction of Samson and Delilah. During his stay there, he continued to send works back to Paris for exhibition. His painting, " The Death of Caesar", was acquired by the Musée du Luxembourg in 1827. In 1828, the Académie de Rouen na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Steuben
Charles Auguste Guillaume Steuben (; April 18, 1788 – November 21, 1856), also Charles de Steuben, was a German-born French people, French Romanticism, Romantic painter and lithographer active from the Napoleonic era, Napoleonic to Second French Empire, Second Empire eras. Early life De Steuben was born the son of the Duchy of Württemberg, Duke of Württemberg officer Carl Hans Ernst von Steuben. At the age of twelve he moved with his father, who entered Russian service as a captain, to Saint Petersburg, where he studied drawing at the Art Academy classes as a guest student. Thanks to his father's social contacts in the court of the Tsar, in the summer of 1802 he accompanied the young Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786–1859) and granddaughter of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, to the Thuringian cultural city of Weimar, where the Tsar's daughter two years later married Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783–1853). Steuben, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Chenavard
Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard (9 December 1808 – 1895) was a French painter. Life Entering the École des beaux-arts en 1825, he studied in the studio of Ingres alongside his friend Joseph Guichard, then in the studios of Hersent and Delacroix. The influence of German philosophy and painting led him to believe that art's aim had to be humanitarian and civilising. He died in Paris in 1895 and was buried in the new Cimetière de Loyasse at Lyon. Works *''Hell'' (1846), Montpellier, Musée Fabre *''The Continence of Scipio'' (1848) Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts *''Divina Tragedia'' (between 1865 and 1869) Paris, Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mai ... Bibliography * Joseph C. Sloane, ''Paul Marc Joseph Chenavard: Artist of 1848'', Chapel Hill, The Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
