French
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Biography: Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet, born on January 23, 1832, in Paris, France, stands as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to…
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Biography: Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, and draughtsman known for his unique and imaginative works that straddled the…
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Biography: Jean Frédéric Bazille
Jean Frédéric Bazille, born on December 6, 1841, in Montpellier, France, and dying tragically young at the age of 28 on…
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Biography: Chaïm Soutine
Chaim Soutine was born in 1893 in the small, impoverished Jewish shtetl of Smilavichy, near Minsk, in what was then part…
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Inspiration: “Paysage d’Hiver Le Chemin Neige,” by Robert Antoine Pinchon
The declaration of war in 1914 signaled a major break in European cultural history, and a major break in the life…
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Inspiration: “Summer,” by Jules Breton
Arguably, Breton’s fame peaked posthumously in 1934 at The Chicago World’s Fair. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt unveiled The Song of the…
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Biography: Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon School, a group of artists who…
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Inspiration: “On The Edge of the Sea,” by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Puvis de Chavannes was born Pierre-Cécile Puvis in a suburb of Lyon, France. He was the son of a mining engineer.…
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Unveiling the Chauvet Cave Paintings: A Window into Prehistoric Art
Deep within the limestone cliffs of southern France lies one of the most extraordinary prehistoric sites ever discovered: Chauvet Cave. This…
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Biography: Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Jules Joseph Lefebvre was a renowned French academic painter of the 19th century, known for his exceptional skill in portrait and…
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Inspiration: “Les Amoureux,” by Émile Friant
The Lovers, Idyll on a Bridge or Autumn Evening is an 1888 oil on canvas painting by Émile Friant (1863–1932). It is now in the musée des beaux-arts…
