Sunday, December 11, 2016

Late 19th-century French Pictures

Henri Lebasque
Sunset on Pont Aven
1894
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

For the time being, Nature has left her throne
Of irony, serenity and splendor:
Toward her perverse, rebellious subject, man, 
She descends mild through the fullness of yellow air. 

La Nature a quitté pour cette fois son trône
De splendeur, d'ironie et de sérénité:
Clémente, elle descend, par l'ampleur de l'air jaune,
Vers l'homme, son sujet pervers et révolté.

 from Poems Under Saturn by Paul Verlaine, translated by Karl Kirchwey (Princeton, 2011)

Maximilien Luce
Factory in moonlight
1898
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Henri Le Sidaner
Hut on the forest edge, Étaples
1893
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Ferdinand de Puigaudeau
Night fair at Saint Pol de Léon
ca. 1894-98
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
 
Alfred Sisley
Turn of the River Loing
1896
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Eugène Boudin
Étretat - Cliff of Aval
1890
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Ernest Ange Duez
Mother & daughter on the beach
1885
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Wheatfield
1879
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Édouard Manet
Woman in a riding habit
ca. 1882
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Berthe Morisot
The cheval-glass
1876
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Borenmisza, Madrid

Paul Gauguin
Lilacs
1885
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The model La Rousse in a white blouse
1889
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Gustave Moreau
Galathea
ca. 1896
tempera, gouache, watercolor, ink on cardboard
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 

Henri Fantin-Latour
Le découragement de l'artiste
1895
lithograph
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

I am grateful for the excellent reproductions from Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.