Our next study will be the american painter, John Singer Sargent. Details »
Palette Museum
Academies of Decorative Painting Museum
Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924)
Nous nous sommes rendus le 20 août 2010 avec Léo au Musée de Philadephia pour admirer une très grande toile peinte de Daniel Ridgway Knight. Details »
Decorative painting in the war : Gettysburg with Paul Philippoteaux
We will discover here Paul Philippoteaux (1846-1923), french decorative painter of Gettysburg Cyclorama Battle Fields.
The artist’s masterpiece is the biggest painted cyclorama in the world. Details »
See the influence in Holland flower painting Danish Johan Laurentz Jensen
Johan Laurentz Jensen (Danish, 1800-1856) Danish painting of the Golden Age reflected a merchant society atease with itself and a renewed sense of national consciousness expressed through art. While numerous painters found inspiration in landscape or shipping scenes,
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Cornelis van Spaendonck (1756-1839)
Cornelis van Spaendonck (1756-1839) was a dutch painter of fruits and floral Still Lifes. A master piece of the artist is presented to the Musée du Louvre in Paris : The Still Life of peaches with grapes.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1863)
We propose here to discover Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898), french decorative painter in XIX century.
First step, a visit at Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New-York. Look at The River, ca. 1865 – Oil on paper laid down on canvas signed (lower right): P. Puvis de Chavannes. Details »
Séraphine de Senlis 1864-1942
Exhibition in Paris, Musée Maillol – October 2008 to March 2009. The french catalog is here. Please, look at the beautiful pieces of painting.
Séraphine Louis was born in Arsy (Oise) on September 3, 1864. Her father was a manual laborer and her mother came from a farmworking background. Séraphine’s mother died on her first birthday and her father, who remarried, also died before she was seven; at which point, she came under the charge of her eldest sister. She first worked as a shepherdess but, by 1881, she was engaged as a domestic worker at the convent of the Sisters of Providence in Clermont (Oise). Beginning in 1901, she was employed as a housekeeper for middle class families in the city of Senlis.
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Antique painted furnitures from Austria
Kasten aus Oberösterreich. Eintüriger Korpus mit abgeschrägten Ecken und geradem, mehrfach getrepptem Profilgesims. Polychrom gefasst: Blumensträuße auf gelbem Fond, dazw. Rautenfeld mit “IHS”. Blattkanten und Blütengehänge, Medaillons mit Gehöft und Kirchdorf. Marmorierung. Dat. 1840. Weichholz. 1. H. 19. Jh. 180 x 118 x 62 cm
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Blot Institut
A french school of Decorative Painting opened in 1928.
Decorative painter students in the classroom.