Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter,collagist,draughtsman,printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905,and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso. Their respective Cubist works were indistinguishable for many years,yet the quiet nature of Braque was partially eclipsed by the fame and notoriety of Picasso.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 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."
The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris,France,on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay,a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914,including paintings,sculptures,furniture,and photography. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world,by painters including Berthe Morisot,Claude Monet,Édouard Manet,Degas,Renoir,Cézanne,Seurat,Sisley,Gauguin,and van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe.
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard FitzWilliam,7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1745–1816),and comprises one of the best collections of antiquities and modern art in western Europe. With over half a million objects and artworks in its collections,the displays in the museum explore world history and art from antiquity to the present. The treasures of the museum include artworks by Monet,Picasso,Rubens,Vincent van Gogh,Rembrandt,Cézanne,Van Dyck,and Canaletto,as well as a winged bas-relief from Nimrud. Admission to the public is always free.
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth,Texas,hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions,educational programs and an extensive research library. Its initial artwork came from the private collection of Kay and Velma Kimbell,who also provided funds for a new building to house it.
The Musée Picasso is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé in rue de Thorigny,in the Marais district of Paris,France,dedicated to the work of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). The museum collection includes more than 5,000 works of art and tens of thousands of archived pieces from Picasso’s personal repository,including the artist's photographic archive,personal papers,correspondence,and author manuscripts. A large portion of items were donated by Picasso’s family after his death,in accord with the wishes of the artist,who lived in France from 1905 to 1973.
Musée Marmottan Monet is an art museum in Paris,France,dedicated to artist Claude Monet. The collection features over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet,including his 1872 Impression,Sunrise. The museum's fame is the result of a donation in 1966 by Michel Monet,Claude's second son and only heir.
The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The museum is most famous as the permanent home of eight large Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet,and also contains works by Paul Cézanne,Henri Matisse,Amedeo Modigliani,Pablo Picasso,Pierre-Auguste Renoir,Henri Rousseau,Alfred Sisley,Chaïm Soutine,Maurice Utrillo,and others.
Water Lilies is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny,and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.
The musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie in the French city of Besançon is the oldest public museum in France. It was set up in 1694,nearly a century before the Louvre became a public museum.
The Musée de Picardie is the main museum of Amiens and Picardy,in France. It is located at 48,rue de la République,Amiens. Its collections include artifacts ranging from prehistory to the 19th century,and form one of the largest regional museums in France.
Paul Guillaume was a French art dealer. Dealer of Chaïm Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani,he was one of the first to organize African art exhibitions. He also bought and sold many works from cutting-edge artists of the time,such as Henri Matisse,Constantin Brâncuși,Pablo Picasso,and Giorgio de Chirico.
Young Girls at the Piano is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir,a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. The painting was completed in 1892 as an informal commission for the Musée du Luxembourg. Renoir painted three other variations of this composition in oil and two sketches,one in oil and one in pastel. Known by the artist as repetitions,they were executed to fulfill commissions from dealers and collectors. The work is on public display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris,Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,and the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.
Colin Barry Bailey is a British art historian and museum director. Bailey is currently the Director of the Morgan Library &Museum in New York City. He is a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art,specifically on the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Extreme Unction is one of a set of seven scenes representing the sacraments of the Catholic Church,painted between 1638 and 1640 by the French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665).
Cécile Debray,born November 20,1966,is a French museum director,art historian and curator,specialist in modern and contemporary art in painting.
A Couple also known as The Engaged Couple or Alfred Sisley and his Wife,is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919),created around 1868 during his early Salon period at a time when he focused on thematic works about couples. It was acquired by the Wallraf–Richartz Museum in 1912.
