Passing through Crécy-la-Chapelle
Crécy-la-Chapelle, the Venice of Brie, attracted many painters, including Jean-Baptiste Corot towards the end of his life.
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Art, history, conferences
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 30, 2022
The forgotten ones: Gustave-Henri Colin
Admired by Monet, Pissarro and Degas, Gustave-Henri Colin presented 6 canvases at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 29, 2022
Turner in January...
The famous collection of watercolors by William Turner (1775-1851) will once again be on view at the National Gallery of Scotland in January
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 28, 2022
Heilbuth and ladies at the water's edge
Evocation of Ferdinand Heilbuth, friend of Manet, Morisot and Degas, through his representations of women at the water's edge.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 27, 2022
Taylor the (chiaroscuro)
In the series of unknown painters, I offer you an Australian UFO unearthed in the collection of the State Library Victoria: T.G. Taylor
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 26, 2022
The forgotten ones: Stanislas Henri Rouart
An evocation of Stanislas Henri Rouart, industrialist, painter, collector and participant in Impressionist exhibitions.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 25, 2022
Claude's Christmas menu
Giverny, December 25, 1886. The gifts have been placed under the tree installed in the small blue room. And the lunch that awaits...
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 24, 2022
Art, History and Conferences is getting a makeover...
A big thank you to the students of the Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Nice for their recommendations on improving my site!
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 23, 2022
Charlotte and Gustave
Gustave Caillebotte has always been discreet about his love life. He never married and had no children, unlike his brother.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 21, 2022
French painters in Kansas City
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, located in Kansas City, Missouri, houses more than 100 works by French artists between 1860 and 1925.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 20, 2022
At the foot of the Mouffe
Rue Mouffetard begins at the end of Avenue des Gobelins, at the foot of the Saint-Médard church.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 20, 2022
Cincinnati's hidden Cézanne
A portrait of Paul Cézanne has been discovered, hidden behind a still life of the painter, kept at the Cincinnati Museum of Art.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 16, 2022
Caillebotte, Luce, Cross, Bonnard: four new treasures for the Hasso Plattner collection!
Since December 14, 2022, the collection of the Barberini Museum has been enriched with four major works by Bonnard, Caillebotte, Cross, Luce
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 12, 2022
At the cafe with Béraud
An attentive painter of Parisian life during the Belle Époque, in 1909 Jean Béraud produced some twenty paintings of the interiors of bars.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 10, 2022
Yvette
Yvette: a short story by Fabrice Roy illustrated with works by Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt and Pierre Auguste Renoir.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 9, 2022
Hopper and Big Apple...
On view at the Whitney Museum until March 5, 2023, "Edward Hopper's New York" focuses on the relationship between the painter and his city.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 8, 2022
Painting Flanders in Sudbury...
From November 21, 2022 to February 26, 2023, the exhibition "Painting Flanders" is on display in Gainsborough's house in Sudbury.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 7, 2022
Manet, Degas: life, characters and styles...
From March 28 to July 23, 2023, an exceptional exhibition associating Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas will be visible at the Musée d'Orsay.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 6, 2022
Metcalf: audacity at the tip of the brush...
American Impressionist of the Group of Ten, Willard-Leroy Metcalf was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1858.
Fabrice Roy
- Dec 2, 2022
Manet and Repose...
Eli Wilner & Company recently completed the restoration of the frame of Édouard Manet's painting, Repose, in the collection of the RISD Mu
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