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Jan 23 2011

Woman with Parasol (Madame Monet and her son), Claude Monet, 1875

French / Impressionist / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Woman with Parasol (Madame Monet and her son), Claude Monet, 1875

This a reproduction of Claude Monet’s “Woman with Parasol” of 1875.  Oscar Claude Monet was born in 1840 Paris and founded the Impressionist movement in fine art.  At the age of seventeen he began painting "en plein air", an outdoor method of painting in which gestural and suggestive use of oils is made.  After two years of military service in Algeria, Monet returned to Paris and painting and initiated the Impressionist style with collaborators, Renoir, Bazille and Sisley.  He married Camille Doncieux in 1870 and painter her in several works until her death in 1879.  This "Woman with Parasol" is one of those.  This masterpiece is on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

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Jul 28 2010

Phaeton by Odilon Redon of ca. 1905

French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc

Phaeton by Odilon Redon of ca. 1905

This modern Symbolist masterpiece was created by Odilon Redon in the early years of the twentieth century. It depicts the Greek mythological figure Phaeton, the son of Apollo, who was allowed to drive his father’s chariot through the heavens. The boy could not control the divine steeds and eventually was tossed from the chariot and plunged to his death. Redon did not achieve any degree of fame until 1884 when he was forty-four years old. He began to favor pastels and oils in the 1890’s until his death in 1916.

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