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The cheval comes from the French: cheval, "horse". Different explanations are given for the reason of its use: "horse" is a name for the adjustment pulley; [1] [2] cheval in a meaning of support framework (cf. French: chevalet, "easel"); [4] overall bulkiness and heavy weight; [5] large mirror size that allowed a horse to be seen in its ...
Detaille made his debut as an artist at the Salon—the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts—of 1867 with a painting of Meissonier's studio. [2] At the Salon of 1868, he exhibited his first military painting, The Drummers Halt , which was based solely on his imagination of the French Revolution .
Cambridge. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center. "Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self–Representation," April 9–28 June 1998, unnumbered cat. (pl.3). Miami Art Museum. "Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self–Representation," September 18–29 November 1998, unnumbered cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Classical dressage evolved from cavalry movements and training for the battlefield, and has since developed into the competitive dressage seen today. Classical riding is the art of riding in harmony with, rather than against, the horse. A painting of the Spanish Riding School in 1783
The painting was Géricault's first exhibited work and it is an example of his attempt to condense both movement and structure in his art. [1] It represents French romanticism and has a motif similar to Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps, but non-classical characteristics of the picture include its dramatic diagonal arrangement and vigorous paint handling.
Chronophotography is a photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures a number of phases of movements. The best known chronophotography works were mostly intended for the scientific study of locomotion , to discover practical information for animal handlers and/or as reference material for artists.
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La Femme au Cheval is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 162 × 130.5 cm (63.8 × 51.4 in). As the title indicates the painting represents a woman and a horse. The rather elegant woman wearing only a pearl necklace and the horse are immersed in a landscape with trees and a window (in the 'background'), a vase, with fruits and vegetation (in the 'foreground') clearly taken from the ...