#gervex

[artschoolglasses]

Masked Ball at the Opera, Paris, Henri Gervex, 1886

[postcard-from-the-past]

"Evening of the Grand Prix, Armenonville", painting by H. Gervex

French vintage postcard

[aqua-regia009]

Return from the Ball, 1879 - oil on canvas — Henri Gervex (French, 1852-1929)

[diioonysus]

"Crying doesn't mean we're weak, it means we're human"

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Birth of Venus by Henri Gervex (1863)

[mote-historie]

Henri Gervex (French, 1852-1929), Young woman standing, back view, in front of a window (Jeune femme debout, vue de dos, devant une fenêtre).

Paris, musée d'Orsay, conservé au musée du Louvre.

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[eirene]

Une soirée au Pré-Catelan, 1909 Henri Gervex

[diioonysus]

aphrodite & venus + art

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Henri Gervex, Young Dancer Putting on Her Shoes (c.1900)

via catherinelarosepoesiaearte.com

[mote-historie]

1877 Henri Gervex (French, 1852-1929), Cafe Scene in Paris, detail.

Gaslight illuminates this scene in a Paris Cafe, which includes the artist himself lighting a cigarette.

Details

Cafes provided an important meeting place for artists, writers, and intellectuals in the nineteenth-century city. News, gossip, and ideas were shared as drinks were poured and pipes, cigars, and cigarettes were smoked. Here the artist painted a group portrait of some of his friends in their neighborhood cafe; he represents himself as the man in the center lighting his pipe. (x)

Photo: Amber Tree

[nupaintings]

[walzerjahrhundert]

Henri Gervex

Armenonville, le soir du Grand-Prix

1905

[byromaniac]

Rolla, by Henri Gervex. 1878. The story of the painting comes from a poem by Alfred de Musset. Rolla was excluded from being displayed in a salon of the Beaux-Arts administration, not for the commonplace nudity of the female subject (Marie, in the poem), but because of the state of undress and the painting's representation of prostitution. The choice to have her corset on the ground was likely suggested by Degas.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Henri Gervex - Ophelia.