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Madeleine,dite Madeleine pleurantAuteur :Henner Jean Jacques (1829-1905)
A portrait of André Le Nôtre by Carlo Maratta.
André Le Nôtre (12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700, occasionally rendered as André Le Nostre) was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. Most notably, he was responsible for the design and construction of the park of the Palace of Versailles, and his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin à la française.
Prior to working on Versailles, Le Nôtre collaborated with Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun on the park at Vaux-le-Vicomte. His other works include the design of gardens and parks at Chantilly, Fontainebleau, Saint-Cloud, and Saint-Germain. His contribution to planning was also significant: at theTuileries he extended the westward vista, which later became the avenue of the Champs-Élysées and comprise the Axe historique.
Le Massacre de Machecoul, peinture de François Flameng, 1884
The massacre of 150 to 200 Vendean Republicans by Vendean Royalists in Machecoul was the starting event of the War in the Vendée.
“Agonie dans le jardin”, une oeuvre unique de la peinture primitive française, acquise par le Prado. Ici, avant et après restauration. A gauche, Louis d’Orléans et Sainte Agnès avaient disparu sous la peinture marron
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Louis d’Orléans, brother of Charles V, who ordered this painting of the “Agony in the Garden of Eden” is kneeling on the bottom left corner of the painting. He is praying next to Saint Agnes; both of them were recovered by marroon painting. The author may be Colart de Laon
François de Beaumont, baron des Adrets
François de Beaumont, baron des Adrets (c. 1512/1513-1587) was a Huguenot leader, notorious for his cruelty; he died a Catholic.
He was born in 1512 or 1513 at the château of La Frette (Isère). During the reign of Henry II of France he served with distinction in the royal army and became colonel of the legions of Dauphiné, Provence and Languedoc. In 1562, however, he joined the Huguenots, not from religious conviction but probably from motives of ambition and personal dislike of the house of Guise.
His campaign against the Catholics in 1562 was eminently successful. In June of that year Des Adrets was master of the greater part of Dauphiné. But his brilliant military qualities were marred by his revolting atrocities. The reprisals he exacted from the Catholics after their massacres of the Huguenots atOrange have left a dark stain upon his name. The garrisons that resisted him were butchered with every circumstance of brutality, and at Montbrison, inForez, he forced eighteen prisoners to precipitate themselves from the top of the keep. Having alienated the affections of the Huguenots by his pride and violence, he entered into communication with the Catholics, and declared himself openly in favor of conciliation.
On 10 January 1563 he was arrested on suspicion by some Huguenot officers and confined in the citadel of Nîmes. He was liberated at the edict of Amboise in the following March, and, distrusted alike by Huguenots and Catholics, retired to the château of La Frette. In 1585,in league with the Englishman Richard Topcliffe,he attacked and ransacked he Abbey of Our Lady of Aiguebelle,Provence, and attempted to destroy it. Unable to do so, he buried all entrances to the Abbey beneath tons of earth and rubble. He died a Catholic at La Frette, on 2 February 1587.
Le dernier lever des couleurs : La cession de la Nouvelle-Orléans.
This painting, whose author is unknown depicts the official ceremony transfering Louisiana under the US sovereignty on the 10th of March 1804.
“Le chevalier aux fleurs. Le Prédestiné revêtu de la symbolique Armure d’argent, va vers l’Idée, insoucieux des appels de la vie”,
Georges Rochegrosse (1894)
To celebrate my return and my holidays, please have the most over the top painting of the musée d’Orsay.
Two weeks later, I’m still not over it (I’m quite sorry the picture doesn’t make justice to the painting’s brilliance and pimpness. REALLY)
The Agitator of Languedoc, 1887, oil on canvas by Jean Paul Laurens, French painter and sculptor, 1838-1921. He was one of the most respected artists of his time.
Laurens was an exponent of the French Academic style and this painting is in the Musee des Augustins in Toulouse, France.
The inquisition at Languedoc was one of many examinations by the Roman church to eliminate Protestant ideas in Southern Europe. Some Roman churchmen, however, protested the charges and Laurens painted a scene of it.
![Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, 1658Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665)Oil on canvas
46 7/8 x 72 in. (119.1 x 182.9 cm)Fletcher Fund, 1924 (24.45.1)
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For his depiction of the gigantic hunter, Poussin drew on the Greek writer Lucian (De domo 27–29): “Orion, who is blind, is carrying Cedalion, and the latter, riding on his back, is showing him the way to the sunlight. The rising sun is healing [his] blindness.” Poussin also studied a sixteenth-century commentary on the tale by Natalis Comes, which offers a meteorological interpretation. Accordingly he added Diana, standing upon the clouds that wreathe Orion’s face, symbol of the power of the moon to gather the earth’s vapors and turn them into rain. Toward the end of his life, Poussin scrutinized pebbles, moss, flowers, and plants, and his landscapes—such as this one, painted for Michel Passart in 1658—evoke the earth’s early history in showing nature abundant and uncultivated.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/50d74d88077176f3b38cb0ef27dc54cb/tumblr_mi5mjcMp6w1r4iw2yo1_500.jpg)
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, 1658
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665)
Oil on canvas46 7/8 x 72 in. (119.1 x 182.9 cm)
Fletcher Fund, 1924 (24.45.1)
For his depiction of the gigantic hunter, Poussin drew on the Greek writer Lucian (De domo 27–29): “Orion, who is blind, is carrying Cedalion, and the latter, riding on his back, is showing him the way to the sunlight. The rising sun is healing [his] blindness.” Poussin also studied a sixteenth-century commentary on the tale by Natalis Comes, which offers a meteorological interpretation. Accordingly he added Diana, standing upon the clouds that wreathe Orion’s face, symbol of the power of the moon to gather the earth’s vapors and turn them into rain. Toward the end of his life, Poussin scrutinized pebbles, moss, flowers, and plants, and his landscapes—such as this one, painted for Michel Passart in 1658—evoke the earth’s early history in showing nature abundant and uncultivated.
M. LEVETT ET MLLE HELENE GLAVANY EN COSTUME TURC par Jean Etienne Liotard
The piece of work was probably painted in Istanbul, as for other works of Liotard. A small drawing of a Turkish house on the back of the painting seems to confirm the hypothesis. Ms Levet in his Turkish costume is drawn in a similar way on a sheet of paper in the Victoria and Albert Museul of London. Another portait of Ms. Levet in another attitude is located at the Louvres.
