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From 1870 To 1875

  • Yoel Davis

Yoel Davis

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French, Bourges 1841–1895 Paris / The Met

    The Pink Dress is a painting by Berthe Morisot, one of her few surviving early works.
    Jacques-Emile Blanche witnessed the painting being made at the Villa Fodor, the family home of Marguerite Carré, the sitter.

Passing off of the Storm

American, Cheshire, Connecticut 1816–1872 New York / The Met

    The painting is a masterful example of the artist's series known as his "Last Summer's Work."
    Kensett chose an unusually wide format for the small painting and provided no framing devices to mark the edges of the composition.
    Showing extreme sensitivity to gradations of tone, he applied broad areas of pure color interrupted only by subtle brushstrokes, such as those representing four diagonal reeds or markers in the left half of the canvas, a rowboat in the foreground, a tiny island, several white sailboats, and a very slight white wave or reflection on the otherwise placid surface of the water.

The Brioche

French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris / The Met

    Manet reportedly called still life the "touchstone of the painter."
    From 1862 to 1870 he executed several large-scale tabletop scenes of fish and fruit, of which this is the last and most elaborate.
    It was inspired by the donation to the Louvre of a painting of a brioche by Jean Siméon Chardin, the eighteenth-century French master of still life.
    Like Chardin, Manet surrounded the buttery bread with things to stimulate the senses - a brilliant white napkin, soft peaches, glistening plums, a polished knife, a bright red box - and, in traditional fashion, topped the brioche with a fragrant flower.

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