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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.
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.
Still Life with Fruit Dish. 1879–80 (Paul Cézanne) At the Milliner's. 1882 (Edgar Degas) [2] Two Roses on a Tablecloth. 1882–1883 (Édouard Manet) Hand. 1884 Auguste Rodin [3] The Bather. c. 1885 (Paul Cézanne) [4] Evening, Honfleur. 1886 (Georges-Pierre Seurat) Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbor. 1888 (Georges-Pierre Seurat) The ...
The artist Percy Gray carefully studied works by Rousseau and other painters which he saw in traveling exhibitions to inform his own paintings of California hills and coastline. [10] The influence of the Barbizon painters may be seen in the sporting dog paintings of Percival Rosseau (1859–1937), who grew up in Louisiana and studied at the ...
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]
Still Life with Exotic Birds is an oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, produced in Atuona on Hiva-Oa in the Marquesas Islands, in 1902. It is held in the Pushkin Museum , in Moscow . It is signed "Paul Gauguin 1902" at bottom left, with the inscription "Oiseaux morts" (dead birds) on the back of the stretcher.
The painting features a nude woman casually lunching with two fully dressed men. Her body is starkly lit and she stares directly at the viewer. The two men, dressed as young dandies, sit with her. In front of them, the woman's clothes, a basket of fruit, and a round loaf of bread are displayed, as in a still life. In the background, yet too ...
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (18 January 1573 – 1621) was a Flemish-born Dutch still life painter and art dealer. [1] He is recognised as one of the earliest painters who created floral still lifes as an independent genre. [2]