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Louis Joseph Édouard Maubert (30 January 1806 Calais – 30 April 1879 Paris) was a prolific French natural history illustrator, who contributed to botanical books and horticultural journals, working with botanists such as Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny, Hippolyte François Jaubert and Jean Jules Linden.
A Sprig of Asparagus (L'Asperge) is an 1880 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, signed at the top right.It is now in the Musée d'Orsay. [1]: 291 In 1880, Charles Ephrussi, an art collector and patron of the arts, commissioned Manet to paint A Bundle of Asparagus for 800 francs.
The museum director Gert von der Osten emphasizes that Manet's still life was "painted quite openly impressionist with ingenious accuracy". [ 2 ] Manet's style of painting in this picture was examined in detail by employees of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne in 2008 on the occasion of the exhibition Impressionism: How ...
Pronkstilleven (Dutch for 'ostentatious', 'ornate' or 'sumptuous' still life) is a style of ornate still life painting, characterised by large and complex compositions and an elaborate palette. Pronkstillevens typically depict a wide variety of objects, fruits, flowers and inanimate animals, often accompanied by live human and animal figures.
This sale set a record for Still Life with Japanese Woodcut at $1.4 million, and the work is currently valued at $45 million. [3] During the direction of Mahmoud Shalouithe, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Tate Modern in London tried to borrow the painting but the requests were rejected. [4]
He built a reputation for his patiently detailed paintings of still life, often quite small in size. Among his pupils belong the early Roccoco painter John Caspar Hirschely and Carl Kastner . Other than his work stay at the Monastery of Osek (1719–1722), Johann Adalbert Angermayer spent most of his life in Prague, where he died on 10 May 1742.
Charles Conder, who lived much of his life in France, where he became part of the Symbolist and Rosicrucian milieu and was a friend of Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec, developed a body of work powerfully influenced by the rococo painter Jean-Antoine Watteau whose style Conder sought to translate into symbolism, producing a series of works—mostly ...
A still life, the painting features "Matisse's own plants, his own garden furniture, and his own fish tank." [ 2 ] Additionally, Matisse's "depiction of space" in the piece creates a tension. The goldfish can be seen from two different angles simultaneously: from the front, where the viewer can immediately recognise them, and from above, where ...