"by the windmill. Artists, such as Renoir, van Gogh, and Pissarro have immortalized Le Moulin de la Galette; likely the most notable was Renoir's festive painting, ""Bal du moulin de la Galette"". The windmill Moulin de la Galette, also known as Blute-fin, was built in 1622. The name Blute-fin comes from the French verb ""bluter"" which means sifting flour for the separation from bran. The Debray family acquired the two mills in 1809 for producing flour, the Blute-fin and the Radet, built in 1717. But it was also used to pressurize the harvest or grind materials needed for manufacturing. An"
"Joanna Hiffernan (c. 1843after 1903) was an Irish artists' model and muse who was romantically linked with American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler and French painter Gustave Courbet. She is the model for Whistler's painting """" and is rumored to be the model for Courbet's painting ""L'Origine du monde"". Suzanne Valadon, also a painter, modeled for Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Edgar Degas. She is best known as the figure in Renoir's ""Dance at Bougival"", and she was the mother of the painter Maurice Utrillo. When Victorian attitudes took hold in England, studies with a live"
"La Danse (Carpeaux) La Danse is an 1868 sculpture by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It was one of four sculptural groups made from Echaillon marble that decorate the façade of the Opera Garnier in Paris, two to either side of the entrance at ground level. The work was installed in 1869, and widely criticised as obscene. It was attacked in August 1869 when an anonymous vandal threw black ink over it. The scandal subsided after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, and the original statue remained on the façade at the opera until it was transferred to"
"Perrot died on holiday in Paramé 29 August 1892. Jules Perrot Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 – 29 August 1892) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Beat Boxer of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including ""Pas de Quatre"", ""La Esmeralda"", ""Ondine"", and ""Giselle"" with Jean Coralli. The Lyon-born Perrot danced often with Marie Taglioni but their partnership was short-lived. She eventually refused to dance with him fearing that he would outshine her. He left the Opéra in 1835 to tour European dance centers such"
"François Émile Michel François Émile Michel (19 July 1828 – 23 May 1909) was a French painter, art critic and art historian. Born in Metz, Michel became a student of Auguste Migette and Laurent-Charles Maréchal, the stained glass painter, and began to exhibit in 1853. Among Michel's masterpieces are ""Une Gardense d'Oies"" (1853) and ""Unit d'ete"" (1872). He wrote for the ""Gazette des Beaux-Arts"" and other periodicals. His most famous book is on the life and works of Rembrandt. His other books include ""Les Brueghel"" and ""Paul Potter"". He was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1892."
"painting for Imelda but did not have a chance to give her the money. The Philippine government seeks the return of the painting. ""Le Bassin aux Nympheas"", also known as ""Japanese Footbridge over the Water-Lily Pond at Giverny"", is part of Monet's famed Water Lilies series. Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term ""Impressionism"" is derived from"
"Adolphe Willette Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 18574 February 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an ""anti-semitic"" candidate in the 9th arrondisement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections. Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne. He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot"
"He died in Paris. François Émile Michel François Émile Michel (19 July 1828 – 23 May 1909) was a French painter, art critic and art historian. Born in Metz, Michel became a student of Auguste Migette and Laurent-Charles Maréchal, the stained glass painter, and began to exhibit in 1853. Among Michel's masterpieces are ""Une Gardense d'Oies"" (1853) and ""Unit d'ete"" (1872). He wrote for the ""Gazette des Beaux-Arts"" and other periodicals. His most famous book is on the life and works of Rembrandt. His other books include ""Les Brueghel"" and ""Paul Potter"". He was elected a member of the Institut"
"At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance At the Moulin Rouge, the Dance is an oil-on-canvas painted by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was painted in 1890, and is the second of a number of graphic paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting the Moulin Rouge cabaret built in Paris in 1889. It portrays two dancers dancing the can-can in the middle of the crowded dance hall. A recently discovered inscription by Toulouse-Lautrec on the back of the painting reads: ""The instruction of the new ones by Valentine the Boneless."" This means that the man to the left of the woman dancing, is"
"of Emesa and French poet Pierre de Ronsard. Toussaint Dubreuil Toussaint Dubreuil (22 November 1602) was a French painter associated (from 1594) with the second School of Fontainebleau (together with the artists Martin Fréminet and Ambroise Dubois) and Italianism, a transitional art style. Dubreuil was born in Paris. His works in the late Mannerist style, many of which have been lost, continue in the use of highly elongated and undulating forms and crowded compositions reminiscent of the work of Francesco Primaticcio (-1570). Many of Dubreuil's subjects include mythological scenes and scenes from works of fiction by such writers as the"
"the ballet and adapting or supplementing many other works. He composed myriad incidental dances such as divertissements and variations, many of which were added to countless other works. Of Pugni's original scores for the ballet, he is best known today for ""Ondine, ou La Naïade"", (also known as ""La Naïade et le pêcheur"") (1843); ""La Esmeralda"" (1844); ""Catarina, ou La Fille du Bandit"" (1846); ""The Pharaoh's Daughter"" (1862); and ""The Little Humpbacked Horse"" (1864). Of his incidental dances, etc., he is most noted for the ""Pas de Six"" from ""La Vivandière"" (also known as ""Markitenka"") (1844); the ""Pas de Quatre"""
"Eugène Cyrille Brunet Eugène Cyrille Brunet was a French sculptor, born in Sarcelles in 1828 to André Brunet and Aglaé-Julie Drouet. He died in 1921. Brunet studied under Armand Toussaint at the École des beaux-arts. There he met Édouard Manet and the two made a study trip to Florence in 1857. In October 1861 he married Caroline de Pène, who was painted by Manet about that time. A mustached head and shoulders of the artist himself appears looking to one side in the left background of Manet’s ""La Musique aux Tuileries"" (1862). In Manet's address book he is recorded as"
"Comédie-Française and the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, and for the ""Nine Muses"" and ""Six Geniuses"" for the Conservatoire de Paris. Works in public collections include: Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle (29 June 1826 – 29 May 1889) was a French painter. Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle was born on 29 June 1826. His father, Jean-Baptiste, was a carpenter and his mother, Madeleine Vitry, was a laundress. He was their third child. He was admitted to the ""École des Arts et Métiers"" (School of Arts and Crafts), where he showed unusual ability in drawing. In 1843, at the age of 17, he was admitted"
"Jules Dupré Jules Dupré (April 5, 1811 – October 6, 1889) was a French painter, one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré is the exponent of his tragic and dramatic aspects. Dupré was born in Nantes. He exhibited first at the Salon in 1831, and three years later was awarded a second-class medal. In the same year he came to England, where he was impressed by the genius of Constable. From then on he learned how to"
"a French Mannerist painter associated (from 1594) with the second [[School of Fontainebleau]] (together with the artists Martin Fréminet and Ambroise Dubois) and Italianism, a transitional art style. Many of Dubreuil's subjects include mythological scenes and scenes from works of fiction by such writers as the Italian [[Torquato Tasso]], the ancient Greek novelist [[Heliodorus of Emesa]] and French poet [[Pierre de Ronsard]]. One of the most notable paintings is the ""Voyage of Ulysses"" by the Italian [[Guidoccio Cozzarelli]] of [[Sienna]], from about 1480. Painted on a wood panel, it was originally attached to a large chest, and was intended to"
"southern France. At first mascot meant simply 'a person or thing supposed to bring good luck' and did not have to be carried or displayed, as now."" Edmond Audran Achille Edmond Audran (12 April 184017 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas, including ""Les noces d'Olivette"" (1879), ""La mascotte"" (1880), ""Gillette de Narbonne"" (1882), ""La cigale et la fourmi"" (1886), ""Miss Helyett"" (1890), and ""La poupée"" (1896). After Audran's initial success in Paris, his works also became a regular feature in the West End of London, in adaptations that Audran supervised. Most of"
"Edmond Audran Achille Edmond Audran (12 April 184017 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas, including ""Les noces d'Olivette"" (1879), ""La mascotte"" (1880), ""Gillette de Narbonne"" (1882), ""La cigale et la fourmi"" (1886), ""Miss Helyett"" (1890), and ""La poupée"" (1896). After Audran's initial success in Paris, his works also became a regular feature in the West End of London, in adaptations that Audran supervised. Most of his works are now neglected, but ""La mascotte"" has been revived occasionally and has been recorded for the gramophone. Audran was born in Lyon, the son of"
"Dancing the Tarantella"", now in the Louvre, a spirited statue in bronze, which established his reputation. In the same class is his ""Neapolitan Improvisatore"" (1839, Leipzig Museum). His works executed for public buildings include: ""France Protecting her Children"" (1855), a group in the grand style for the Louvre; two bronze caryatids for the tomb of Napoleon in the Invalides; a colossal Christ in the church of the Madeleine; the statues of ""Comedy"" and ""Tragedy"" for the Théâtre Français; marble statues of Dunois, Philippe of France, Chateaubriand, and Richelieu at Versailles; and the group for the Fontaine Saint-Michel, representing that saint"
"in July 1850. Germain Quériau Pierre-Angélique-Germain Quériau was a French dancer and choreographer in the first half of the 19th century, born c. 1790 and died in Montmartre 14 July 1850. A dancer in Naples from 1813 to 1815, then principal dancer in Lyon from 1820 to 1824 Quériau became ballet master at the theatre of Marseille from 1826 to 1829 where he had ""L'Apothéose d'Hercule"", ""Énée ou le Triomphe de Vénus"" and ""Romulus"" staged and printed. From 1830 to 1831, he headed the ballets of Lyon where he performed ""Napoléon en Égypte"" and ""Le Flageolet magique"", ballets which would"
"Camoin and Charles Dufresne. """"SSNBA"" indicates the work was exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts"". Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (14 November 1871 in Sète, France – 29 March 1950 in Paris) was a French painter. He is known for his pioneering leadership of the ""Camoufleurs"" (the French Camouflage Department) in World War I. De Scévola was a student of Fernand Cormon and Pierre Dupuis at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. De Scévola was a pastellist, remarkable for his silky, velvety and smooth style. ""Making his only aesthetic concern accuracy of the"
"Michel Rochetel Michel Rochetel (active 1540 to 1552) was a French painter active at Fontainebleau Palace after 1540. He worked in the studio of Francesco Primaticcio and used that artist's drawings to paint 'Zaleucos' and 'Justice' on cupboards in the king's cabinet between 1541 and 1545. He was also one of the artists who used Primaticcio's drawings to design images of the apostles for enamels by Léonard Limosin (1547). He was paid 20 livres for his work on the galerie d'Ulysse - a salary of that amount placed him among the top painters in France. He was received as a"
"Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (14 November 1871 in Sète, France – 29 March 1950 in Paris) was a French painter. He is known for his pioneering leadership of the ""Camoufleurs"" (the French Camouflage Department) in World War I. De Scévola was a student of Fernand Cormon and Pierre Dupuis at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. De Scévola was a pastellist, remarkable for his silky, velvety and smooth style. ""Making his only aesthetic concern accuracy of the most naked kind"" (E. Benézit), he left an extensive body of work including scenes of alcoves, landscapes, flowers and"
"resident ballet company was considered the most renowned in Europe, aside from the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris. The celebrated ballet master Jules Perrot began staging ballet at Her Majesty's in 1830. Lumley appointed him ""Premier Maître de Ballet"" (chief choreographer) to the theatre in 1842. Among the works of ballet that he staged were ""Ondine, ou La Naïade"" (1843), ""La Esmeralda"" (1844), and ""Catarina, ou La Fille du Bandit"" (1846), as well as the celebrated divertissement ""Pas de Quatre"" (1845). Other ballet masters created works for the ballet of Her Majesty's Theatre throughout the"
"time, Utrillo among them, and it is certain that he aided the star-crossed genius, though his own reluctance to have people write about him may account for the fact that we know of it only through oblique remarks in the records of the time. Maclet painted the “Lapin Agile”, the “Moulin de la Galette”, and the ‘Maison de Mimi Pinson” several years before Utrillo painted them. He painted most often in winter in this period, skillfully suggesting snow by leaving bare white spaces in his canvas or paper. In a short time Maclet won a circle of sincere admirers. The"
"Charles Gumery Charles-Alphonse-Achille Guméry (14 June 1827 – 19 January 1871) was a French sculptor working in an academic realist manner in Paris. Several of his figures ornament the Opéra Garnier most notoriously the group ""La Danse"", which was commissioned from him after the group by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was found unacceptable. Though he was born in the ""quartier"" of Vaugirard in Paris, Charles Guméry was from a middle-class Savoyard family established by his father at Passy.His father, Nicolas Guméry, was a schoolteacher. A student of Armand Toussaint (1806–1862) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in 1850 he received the"
"by the Carnavalet Museum in 1882. His known paintings include: Vue de l’Archevêché (1750) L’Hôtel de Ville et la place de Grève (1751) Le cabaret à l’Image Notre-Dame, sur la place de Grève (1751) Maisons du cloître Notre-Dame, donnant sur la rivière (1753) La joute des mariniers, entre le pont Notre-Dame et le Pont-au-Change (1756) Vue des hauteurs de Chaillot (1757) Le Palais des Tuileries (1757, in the Carnavalet Museum) Le Pont-Neuf et le quai des Orfèvres (1759) Le Louvre et le Pont Neuf (1760) Vue de la Seine à Ivry (vers 1760) Le château de Menars (1762 - commissioned"
"Antoine Guillemet Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Guillemet (June 30, 1843 in Chantilly (Oise) – May 19, 1918 in Mareuil-sur-Belle (Dordogne)) was a French renowned landscape painter and longtime Jury member of the Salon des Artistes Francais. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Antoine Guillemet born in Chantilly, in the Oise, he studied under Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Achille-François Oudinot (1820-1891), Charles-François Daubigny and Gustave Courbet. Guillemet showed an early interest in sailing, a pursuit which was actively discouraged by his parents. He briefly studied law, but this too"
"Jules Perrot Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 – 29 August 1892) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Beat Boxer of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including ""Pas de Quatre"", ""La Esmeralda"", ""Ondine"", and ""Giselle"" with Jean Coralli. The Lyon-born Perrot danced often with Marie Taglioni but their partnership was short-lived. She eventually refused to dance with him fearing that he would outshine her. He left the Opéra in 1835 to tour European dance centers such as London, Milan, Vienna and Naples, where he met"
"Frédéric Bazille Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted ""en plein air"". Frédéric Bazille was born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, into a wealthy Protestant family. He became interested in painting after seeing some works of Eugène Delacroix. His family agreed to let him study painting, but only if he also studied medicine. Bazille began studying medicine in 1859, and moved to Paris in 1862 to continue his studies. There he"
"arrived at greater simplicity in his colour harmonies. Among his chief works are the ""Morning and Evening"" at the Louvre, and the early ""Crossing the Bridge"" in the Wallace Collection. Jules Dupré Jules Dupré (April 5, 1811 – October 6, 1889) was a French painter, one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. If Corot stands for the lyric and Rousseau for the epic aspect of the poetry of nature, Dupré is the exponent of his tragic and dramatic aspects. Dupré was born in Nantes. He exhibited first at the Salon in 1831, and three years"
"in the Luxembourg Museum and are now in the Musée d'Orsay. His more important monuments are those to Admiral Courbet (1890) at Abbeville and the famous Joan of Arc. Other works include ""Eve"" (1880), ""Diana"" (1882 and 1891), ""Woman and Peacock"" (a. k. a. ""Juno and The Peacock""), and ""The Poet"", astride his Pegasus spreading wings for flight. He sculpted ""The Dancer"", based on Cléo de Mérode which today is also in the Musée d'Orsay. In 1870 he helped create the snow sculpture, ""La statue de la Résistance"". To these works should be added his monuments to Cardinal Lavigerie and"
"Toussaint Dubreuil Toussaint Dubreuil (22 November 1602) was a French painter associated (from 1594) with the second School of Fontainebleau (together with the artists Martin Fréminet and Ambroise Dubois) and Italianism, a transitional art style. Dubreuil was born in Paris. His works in the late Mannerist style, many of which have been lost, continue in the use of highly elongated and undulating forms and crowded compositions reminiscent of the work of Francesco Primaticcio (-1570). Many of Dubreuil's subjects include mythological scenes and scenes from works of fiction by such writers as the Italian Torquato Tasso, the ancient Greek novelist Heliodorus"
"that was opposed by the corps de ballet. The scandal reached such a level Charles Gumery was commissioned to make a replacement (his gilded sculptures of ""L'Harmonie"" and "" La Poésie"" already crown the Opera's end pavilions). The issue was forgotten after the Franco-Prussian War broke out in July 1870, and Gumery died in Paris during the Siege of Paris. Carpeaux's work remained in place after his death in 1875, and Gumery's replacement is held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers. A 42-inch bronze cast reproduction of Carpeaux's ""Genius of the Dance"", the central figure of ""La Danse"", was acquired"