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Feb 5 2011
Le Pont de la Tournelle by Stanislas Lepine, 1862
French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Stanislas Lepine’s “Le Pont de la Tournelle” of 1862. This is a lovely landscape of the Tournelle Bridge in Paris as it appeared in 1862. The artist was twenty-eight when he painted this having been a student of Corot for three years. His favorite subject was the river Seine which he repeated represented. He participated in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and he won the first prize at the Exhibition of 1889. He died in Paris in 1892. This is a fine example of his work and it is in The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Jan 28 2011
The Wave by Gustave Courbet, 1870
French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
Courbet painted this when he was fifty years old and it is a wonderful example of his Realist style in which he roughly and intimate portrayed the harshness of experience and the scenes which he encountered in life. The painting has been interpreted as an escape from the terrors of the Industrial Revolution and an embracing of the power of Nature. Courbet created the work in a cottage on the Norman coast in which he lost himself in the creative process. Within a year, he was imprisoned for six months during the Paris Comune of 1871 and afterwards went into a self-imposed exile to Switzerland where he died on December 31, 1877. This masterpiece is in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
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