#french institute

[illustratus]

Napoleon Bonaparte among the members of the Institute by Édouard Detaille

[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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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.

[resplendentoutfit]

The Cape, 1800s Style

Probably European • Wool and silk • 1840s • Metropolitan Museum of Art

American or European • 1850s • Wool, silk, and cotton

British • 1860s • Wool and silk

American • Wool • 1870s

French • Silk • 1880s • Metropolitan Museum of Art

1890s • Machine-made lace • House of Worth • Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Allegory of the Birth of the King of Rome, 1811

Ernest Joseph Bailly

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

[tragediambulante]

Young Italian street musician, Thomas Couture, about 1877

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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.

[galleryofart]

Still Life with Geranium

Artist: Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)

Date: 1906

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Like his artistic hero, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse merged the traditional and the avant-garde. In Still Life with Geranium, he transformed a simple still life into a populated Arcadian landscape painting, rendered in the brilliant color, thick paint, and rapid brushwork characteristic of the group of painters known as the Fauves (French for “wild beasts”). Matisse was recognized by critics as the leader of this group.

This composition is one of contrasts - the pale palette and light brushwork in the upper half of the picture are juxtaposed with the darker colored, heavily painted lower half; the firmly planted pose of the female figure is contraposed with the almost-fleeing figure of the male; and the red vegetables grown near Paris are set near ceramic objects from exotic, faraway places. One of many still-life paintings in which Matisse incorporated his own figurative sculptures, here the artist challenged his viewers’ expectations by rendering his modeled figures with minimal color and simple lines. Probably represented as plaster casts, these figures would later be made in bronze editions by the artist; versions of Woman Leaning on Her Hands (on the right of the geranium) and Thorn Extractor (on the left) are also in the collection of the Art Institute.

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Pont des Arts upon Seine