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May 23 2011
Ruins of Nimes, Orange and St-Remy
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Ruins of Nimes, Orange and Saint-Remy-de-Provence” by Hubert Robert of 1789. This French artist was fifty-six when he created this masterpiece. He was born in Paris and in 1754 went to Rome in the entourage of the ambassador from the French court. He spent eleven years there and supported himself in the latter years through his work as an artist. He returned to Paris is 1765 and soon became a success in the art circles. He was imprisoned during the Revolution and was almost executed during the Terror. He was released after the death of Robespierre. He became one of the directors of the new museum of the Louvre and continued his success focusing on Neoclassical works. He died in Paris on April 15, 1808. The original of this masterpiece is on display at the Bode-Museum In Berlin.
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May 19 2011
The Return of Marcus Sextus
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Return of Marcus Sextus” of 1799 by Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin. This masterpiece was a success at the Salon of 1799 being an allegory of the return of the the émigrés following the extremes of the Terror during the French Revolution. Marcus Sextus is a fictional character returning home from having fled the proscriptions of the Roman dictator Sulla. He returns to find his wife has died and his daughter is beside herself with grief. The artist was twenty-five years old when he created this masterpiece and he was able to study in Italy after the sensation caused by this painting. He continued popular through the Napoleonic Period and in the Restoration as well. He became director of the French Academy in Rome in 1822 and was created Baron Guerin in 1828. In an effort to regain his broken health, Guerin returned to Rome in 1833 where he died on July 6. This masterpiece measures 243 cm wide and 217 cm high. It is in the Musee de Louvre, Paris.
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May 13 2011
Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole
French / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole” by Antoine-Jean Gros of 1801. It depicts the masterful victory of Napoleon against the Austrians during their third attempt to raise the siege of Mantua in 1796. The painting, along with several others, depicts a crucial moment on the first day of the battle in which Napoleon seized the Tri-color and exposed himself to withering Austrian fire in an effort to inspire his men. Bonaparte eventually won the battle and campaign. The painting is 59 cm wide and 73 cm high. The masterpiece is currently in Louvre, Paris.
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May 8 2011
Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau
French / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau” by Antoine-Jean Gros of 1808. Gros was a disciple of the Neoclassicist David, but departed from those norms in this epochal painting. Napoleon’s compassion towards the dead and wounded is depicted with focus in the foreground of huge corpses. Gros was thirty-seven when he produced this masterpiece and he was at the height of his career. His later life was focused on an increasing failure to stem the tide of Romanticism. He died at his own hand on June 25, 1835. The original of this masterpiece is in the Louvre and is 784 cm wide and 521cm high.
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Apr 5 2011
Apotheosis of Homer
French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Apotheosis of Homer” of 1827 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. The French master artist was forty-seven when he produced this painting and had finally become a critical success in Paris three years before. The government commissioned this work which he quickly completed. It is designed to show the homage that should be paid to Homer, the first European poet, by the great men of Greece, Rome and subsequent times. The original painting is 515 cm by 386 cm and is in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Mar 15 2011
Magdalena Bay, 1840, Francois Biard
French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Magdalena Bay” of 1840 by Auguste Francois Biard. This wonderful depiction of the wild northwest shore of Spitzbergen was painted when the artist was forty-two years old. He died in 1882 and was a native of Lyon. He was a prominent abolitionist and traveled throughout the world making sketches from which he later produced wonderful paintings. Magdalena Bay is known world-wide for its spectacular juxtaposition of the sea, glacial congestion and riotous mountain peaks rising straight out of the sea. It remains one of the most beautiful and exotic places to visit in the world. This masterpiece is in the Louvre, Paris.
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Mar 13 2011
Le Pandemonium, 1841, John Martin
British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of John Martin’s “Le Pandemonium” of 1841. The artist created the masterpiece when he was fifty-two years old. He was already deeply influencing the French Romanticists such as Delacroix, Victor Hugo and Saint-Beuve. The work depicts a scene from Milton’s Paradise Lost representing the capital of Satan’s kingdom. This painting in the Louvre also retains its original frame designed by the artist, the only one of his works that does. The original painting is 72.8 inches wide and 48.4 inches high and is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Mar 10 2011
Homer, Auguste Leloir, 1841
French / Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Homer” of 1841 by Jean-Baptiste Auguste Leloir. This painting was inspired by the "Apotheosis of Homer" by Ingres and was completed when the French artist was thirty-two. This is a Neo-classic and idealized depiction of the greatest of the Greek bards telling his tale to a varied audience before a Doric temple. The artist died in 1892. The dimensions of this masterpiece are 195 cm by 147 cm and it is housed is in the Louvre, Paris.
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Dec 30 2010
The Intercession of the Sabine Women by Jacques Louis David, 1799
David / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A masterpiece by Jacques Louis David composed from 1796 to 1799 housed in the Musee du Louvre in Paris. This wonderful masterpiece is themed in reconciliation as the Sabine Women who had been forcibly taken as wives by the new male citizens of Rome urge their brothers and fathers not to attack their husbands.
Dec 4 2010
Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix, 1830
Delacroix / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of a work by Eugene Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People” of 1830. This Romantic masterpiece attempts to capture the concept that Liberty herself is the motivation for the uprising of the People against Oppression. Critics greeted the work as “ignoble” yet Delacroix secures his place as a promoter of the people over the claims of the aristocrats. He places himself in the tradition of Michelangelo and Rubens by accentuating color and movement rather than form and clarity. Charles Baudelaire said, “Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.” The artist died in 1863 at the age of sixty-five years. The painting was placed in the Louvre in 1876 and served as the model for the Statue of Liberty.
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