#french institute

[galleryofart]

The Slave Market

Artist: Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)

Genre: History Painting

Date Created: 1866

Period: Academic Art

Location: Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

A naked woman at center and man at far right are shown in a public courtyard, as prospective slave owners inspect their bodies. Meticulous details like the figures’ clothing, as well as the style of the surrounding architecture, evoke locales such as Egypt and Turkey, where Gérôme spent several months traveling and sketching. Constructed both from imagination and observation, this dehumanizing scene portrays Islamic society as strange, violent, and depraved. Such paintings appealed to France’s assumptions of its own moral superiority as it expanded its colonial empire across North Africa.

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Napoleon Bonaparte among the members of the Institute by Édouard Detaille

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Carolus-Duran (1837-1917) "Merrymakers" (1870) Oil on canvas Located in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, United States

[didoofcarthage]

Pair of firedogs representing Venus and Mars, designed by Quentin-Claude Pitoin and modeled by Etienne-Maurice Falconnet

French, c. 1769

gilt bronze and iron supports

Art Institute of Chicago

[emaadsidiki]

Pont des Arts 🕺🌼🧁🥳

[macbeth-n-cheese]

Study in Synth Anatomy

Based on gen. 2 models

Finally done with this! It was very difficult to find good references for their insides, but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Wanted to give it a vintage medical book vibe ^^

(the French words are names I gave to the parts lol)

Edit: changed my signature and fixed this mistake that was driving me mad lol

Translation for the text, clockwise from the title:

'Anatomy of the Synthetic Man

Coolant Filter

Fuse Box

Reactor Casing

Coolant Pump Motor

Torso Mobility Joint

Auxiliar Coolant Tank

Negative Pressure Pump

Coolant Tank

Upper Limb Motor

Upper Limb Pulley Array'

There are a lot of HC parts that I ended up not including, because it would be wayyy too busy

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Pink silk ball gown, ca. 1867, French.

By Emile Pingat.

Albany Institute of History & Art.

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Young Italian street musician, Thomas Couture, about 1877

[empirearchives]

Allegory of the Birth of the King of Rome, 1811

Ernest Joseph Bailly

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

[lionofchaeronea]

Study of a Cow, Émile van Marcke, between 1870 and 1890

[artsandculture]

Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877) 🎨 Gustave Caillebotte 🏛️ The Art Institute of Chicago 📍 Chicago, United States of America

In his masterpiece, “Paris Street; Rainy Day,” Gustave Caillebotte brought an unusual monumentality and compositional control to a typical Impressionist subject, the new boulevards that were changing the Paris cityscape. The result is at once real and contrived, casual and choreographed. With its curiously detached figures, the canvas depicts the anonymity that the boulevards seemed to create. By the time it appeared in the third Impressionist exhibition, held in April 1877, the artist was twenty-nine years old, a man of considerable wealth, and not only the youngest but also the most active member of the Impressionist group. He contributed six of his own canvases to the exhibition; played a leading part in its funding, organization, promotion, and installation; and lent a number of paintings by his colleagues that he owned.

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Untitled (1932) - Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

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Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet (1791-1834) "Portrait of Achille Deban de Laborde" (1817) Oil on canvas Located in the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States Painted during the Bourbon restoration, this portrait depicts the son of a fallen Napoleonic hero during a time of anti-imperialism in France. Eight-year-old Achille wears a miniature version of the embroidered Hussar uniform his father, Baron Jean-Baptiste Deban de Laborde, would have worn. His father’s military awards, notably the ceremonial sword and Légion d’honneur hanging in the upper left, surround the young boy. Achille would ultimately rise to the rank of colonel in the French cavalry.

[resplendentoutfit]

Dress match-up: a painted dress and its exact dress or a close match.

French • 1864 • Metropolitan Museum of Art

A rounded shoulderline that enhanced the length of the neck was prized through most of the nineteenth century. From the 1830s to the 1880s, it was accomplished by the lowered splayed stance of corset straps. The open neckline apparent in this wedding dress and the underbodice of this summer gown from the period suggests its romantic effect. – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873) • Adelina Patti • 1863

[emaadsidiki]

Pont des Arts upon Seine

[galleryofart]

At the Moulin Rouge

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901)

Date: 1892-1895

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Description

Even in its crowded intimacy, At the Moulin Rouge retains an element of the theatrical: its cast of vibrant characters, lit by unseen lights, are reflected in blurry mirrors.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has been associated with the Moulin Rouge since its opening in 1889: the owner of the legendary nightclub bought the artist’s Equestrienne as a decoration for the foyer. Toulouse-Lautrec populated At the Moulin Rouge with portraits of the legendary nightclub’s regulars, including himself—the diminutive figure in the center background—accompanied by his cousin, physician Gabriel Tapié de Céleyran. Dancer La Goulue arranges her hair behind the table where Jane Avril, another famous performer, socializes. Singer May Milton peers out from the right edge of the painting, her face harshly lit and acid green. At some point, the artist or his dealer cut down the canvas to remove Milton, perhaps because her strange appearance made the work hard to sell. Whatever the reason, by 1914 the cut section had been reattached to the painting.