"The Snake Charmer (Rousseau) The Snake Charmer (French: ""La Charmeuse de Serpents"") is a 1907 oil painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a depiction of a woman with glowing eyes playing a flute in the moonlight by the edge of a dark jungle with a snake extending toward her from a nearby tree. ""The Snake Charmer"" was commissioned by Berthe, Comtesse de Delaunay, the mother of artist Robert Delaunay. It was Rousseau's first large commission and was exhibited in the 1907 Autumn Salon. Because Rousseau never traveled outside of France, the exotic plants in the painting"
"painters, Félix Auguste Clément and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Essentially, he was self-taught and is considered to be a naïve or primitive painter. His best-known paintings depict jungle scenes, even though he never left France or saw a jungle. Stories spread by admirers that his army service included the French expeditionary force to Mexico are unfounded. His inspiration came from illustrations in children's books and the botanical gardens in Paris, as well as tableaux of taxidermy wild animals. During his term of service, he had also met soldiers who had survived the French expedition to Mexico, and he listened to their stories"
"Musée d'Orsay, where the show also appeared. The exhibition, encompassing 49 of his paintings, was on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington from July 16 to October 15, 2006. A major collection of Rousseau's work was shown at the Grand Palais from March 15 to June 19, 2006. Much of the information in this article was taken from ""Henri Rousseau Jungles in Paris"", The Tate Gallery, pamphlet accompanying the 2005 exhibition. Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He"
"$10,230), among others. Pierre Emmanuel Damoye Pierre Emmanuel Damoye was French artist born in Paris on February 20, 1847. He studied his craft at the École des Beaux-Arts and went on to become a renowned and influential landscape artist noted for his sweeping skies, tree studded-plains, and vibrant farmlands. He was regularly recognized by a broad range of art critics as one of the most significant heirs to the Barbizon school tradition. Damoye studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Léon Bonnat, one of the foremost figure painters and portraitists of the late nineteenth-century. Damoye, however, seems"
"simplicity, Rousseau's jungle paintings were built up meticulously in layers, using a large number of green shades to capture the lush exuberance of the jungle. Rousseau's work continued to be derided by the critics up to and after his death in 1910, but he won a following among his contemporaries: Picasso, Matisse, and Toulouse-Lautrec were all admirers of his work. ""The Hungry Lion"" is now held by the Fondation Beyeler and is exhibited at their gallery at Riehen, near Basel, in Switzerland. Previously. in 1905, it had been exhibited in the Salon des Independants, in Paris. The Hungry Lion Throws"
"popularity of exotic landscape scenes can be seen in the success of the painter Frans Post, who spent the rest of his life painting Brazilian landscapes after a trip there in 1636–1644. Other painters who never crossed the Alps could make money selling Rhineland landscapes, and still others for constructing fantasy scenes for a particular commission such as Cornelis de Man's view of Smeerenburg in 1639. Compositional formulae using elements like the repoussoir were evolved which remain influential in modern photography and painting, notably by Poussin and Claude Lorrain, both French artists living in 17th century Rome and painting largely"
"of their attitude to Nature that such a position should be desirable."" Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting. His landscapes are usually turned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by the addition of a few small figures, typically"
"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"
"to Italy, and Michael and Sarah Stein became important patrons of Matisse, while Gertrude Stein continued to collect Picasso. The Salon d'Automne of 1905 brought notoriety and attention to the works of Henri Matisse and the Les Fauves group. The latter gained their name after critic Louis Vauxcelles described their work with the phrase ""Donatello chez les fauves"" (""Donatello among the wild beasts""), contrasting the paintings with a Renaissance-type sculpture that shared the room with them. Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), an artist that Picasso knew and admired and who was not a Fauve, had his large jungle scene ""The Hungry Lion"
"and Paris; however the landscapists Sir Kyffin Williams (1918–2006) and Peter Prendergast (1946–2007) remained living in Wales for most of their lives, though well in touch with the wider art world. Ceri Richards was very engaged in the Welsh art scene as a teacher in Cardiff, and even after moving to London; he was a figurative painter in international styles including Surrealism. Various artists have moved to Wales, usually the countryside, though paintings of Cardiff of around 1893–97 by the American artist Lionel Walden are in museums in Cardiff and Paris. These included Eric Gill, whose colony included for his"
"Georges Gimel Georges Gimel (March 8, 1898 – January 21, 1962), was a French expressionist painter of portraits, landscapes, mountain landscapes, still lifes and flowers. He was also a wood carver, lithographer, illustrator, set designer, sculptor, and enamel painter. Gimel was born at Domène (Isère), France. He lived at Domène and at Grenoble, where he studied at the Ecole des Arts Industriels, until the age of 16 at which time he moved to Paris. Gimel stayed in Paris for 20 years; thereafter he split his time between Megève, Annecy, Grenoble and Paris. He took part in both: the First World"
"Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting. His landscapes are usually turned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by the addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology. By the end"
"also New York City, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka. In the words of Saint John of the Cross, 'To reach the unknown, you must pass through the unknown.' Academicism--finished for good, isn't it? Michel Tapié Michel Tapié (Michel Tapié de Céleyran; 26 February 1909 – 30 July 1987) was a French art critic, curator, and collector. He was an early and influential theorist and practitioner of ""tachisme"", a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s which is regarded as a European version of abstract expressionism. Tapié was from an aristocratic French"
"Gaston Anglade Gaston Vincent Anglade (1854 – 1919) was a French impressionist painter known for his pastoral scenes of Dordogne, Pyrenées and Alsace. Anglade was born in Bordeaux and worked in Paris and Dordogne. He studied with Léon Germain Pelouse (1838–1891) and made his reputation with paintings of mist-infused, multi-layered landscapes in a style similar to that of William Didier-Pouget. The large number of similar landscapes he painted, especially of heather-colored hills in the region of the Meuse and Creuze likely contributed to relatively sparse attention to his well-executed works. In recent years, however, they have attracted considerably greater interest."
"Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757–1841) was a French painter known for his landscapes. A native of Paris, Dunouy began his career depicting views of the city and the surrounding region, exhibiting at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1791. exhibited views of the area around Rome and Naples; he showed regularly until 1833, save for a few absences. He received medals in 1819 and 1827. He is known to have traveled to Italy in 1810 under the patronage of Joachim Murat; there is also evidence that he traveled there in the 1780s. He is also associated with the"
"Jacques Raymond Brascassat Jacques Raymond Brascassat (30 August 1804 – 28 February 1867) was a French painter noted for his landscapes, and in particular his animal pieces. Brascassat was born in Bordeaux and studied art in Paris under Louis Hersent at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won second place in the Prix de Rome of 1825 with a picture of the ""Hunt of Meleager"". He went to Italy and painted a number of landscapes which were exhibited between 1827 and 1835, but subsequently he devoted himself mainly to animal-painting, in which his reputation as an artist was made."
"in Paris. Jean-Jacques Le Veau and Noël Le Mire engraved some of his paintings. https://americanart.si.edu/artist/charles-francois-lacroix-de-marseille-2755 Charles François Lacroix de Marseille Charles Francois Grenier de Lacroix, called Charles Francois Lacroix de Marseille, (circa 1700 in Marseille – 1779 or 1782, Berlin) was a French painter. Charles François Lacroix of Marseille was a landscape and marine painter, in the style of Claude Joseph Vernet, Jean-Joseph Kapeller (1702-1790) and Henry of Arles. He was a pupil and imitator of Joseph Vernet, and stayed in Rome in 1754. From 1776, he exhibited with great success and spent a good part of his life between"
"Robert Antoine Pinchon Robert Antoine Pinchon (July 1, 1886 in Rouen – January 9, 1943 in Bois-Guillaume) was a French Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (""l'École de Rouen"") who was born and spent most of his life in France. He was consistent throughout his career in his dedication to painting landscapes ""en plein air"" (i.e., outdoors). From the age of nineteen (1905 to 1907) he worked in a Fauve style but never deviated into Cubism, and, unlike others, never found that Post-Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. Claude Monet referred to him as ""a surprising touch in"
"usually found his subjects in the area around The Hague where he lived, rarely going far from home. However, in 1900, at the age of seventy, he took a trip to Barbizon where he painted his famous forest scene. The journey to Barbizon must have been a kind of pilgrimage for him, since it was in this area that French painters, in around 1830, had first begun to paint in the open air on a large scale. These 'painters of Barbizon' strove for a natural representation of the landscape, paying particular attention to the mood and the light. Nature for"
"Information as to the whereabouts or even exact years of creation is not easily obtained. The following data have been gathered from different sources, including auctioneers’ catalogues and databases documenting art prices. Frédéric Braconier Frédéric François Albert Braconier (10 August 1901 – 10 November 1985) was a Belgian artist from the Wallonie whose œuvre comprises at least 150 paintings and monotypes of considerable variety both in subject and style. He painted landscapes, city views and portraits and created numerous abstract compositions. Braconier was active for more than sixty years, artistically “reinventing” himself several times. The diversity of his works, bearing"
"Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Gauguin's art became popular after his death, partially"
"Lesueur: Charles Alexandre Lesueur Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1 January 1778 in Le Havre – 12 December 1846 in Le Havre) was a French naturalist, artist and explorer. In 1801, he traveled to Australia as artist on the expedition of Nicolas Baudin. With François Péron he took over the duties as naturalist after the death of the expedition's zoologist René Maugé. Together they collected over 100,000 zoological specimens. In 1802 he made the only known sketches of the King Island emu in its natural habitat (the bird became extinct in 1822). Between 1815 and 1837, he lived in the United States."
"European artistic models rather than painting from nature. Guy died before the completion of the very ambitious exhibition he had planned at the Shakespeare Club in Brooklyn in 1820. Francis Guy Francis Guy (1760–1820) was an English-born American Colonial Era painter. Mostly remembered for his topographic views of Brooklyn, Guy is today highly regarded as one of America's earliest and most important landscape artists. Guy participated in the family business as a London silk dyer before he moved to the United States in September 1795, where he intended to continue his career. He lived briefly in New York and Philadelphia"
"Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape ""en plein air"" (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs. Among his important works are a series of paintings of the River Thames, mostly around Hampton Court, executed in 1874, and landscapes depicting places in or near Moret-sur-Loing. The"
"Georges Ricard-Cordingley A painter and traveller, Georges Ricard-Cordingley (1873-1939) constantly searched for an original contact with the world of sea. First voyage to the North Sea with The Fishermen’s Mission. First studies for seascapes. Works exhibited in Paris and London. Divides time between London, Paris, and Boulogne. Paints portraits and seascapes. Éliane (1913-1945), Louis (1917-1942) and Gabrielle (born 1924). Divides time between the Parisian suburb, Cannes and Boulogne. Takes many trips Normandy, Brittany, the Mediterranean, North Africa. Exhibits work in and around Paris, Cannes, and Boulogne. Also travels to lake regions in Switzerland, Italy and France. Winters in Cannes, summers"
"Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin (20 April 1728 – 21 January 1811) was a landscape painter from Liège in the Southern Netherlands. Early in life he served in the French army, and it was not until he was thirty-four years of age that he commenced the study of art in the Academy at Antwerp. He afterwards visited Italy and Switzerland, and resided for some time at Geneva. He painted a landscape for Catherine the Great, for which he was handsomely rewarded, and many others are to be found at Liège, and in Germany and England."
"left Paris in 1910 for the south of France. Bonnard was described, by his own friend and historians, as a man of ""quiet temperament"" and one who was unobtrusively independent. His life was relatively free from ""the tensions and reversals of untoward circumstance"". It has been suggested that: ""Like Daumier, whose life knew little serenity, Bonnard produced a work during his sixty years' activity that follows an even line of development."" Bonnard is known for his intense use of color, especially via areas built with small brush marks and close values. His often complex compositions—typically of sunlit interiors and gardens"
"in Picardy, about 50 miles northeast of Paris. Despite his vision problems, Laugée continued to work, though only painting small sketches. He passed away in Boullarre on December 5, 1937. His wife Eva lived on until 1958, dying just shy of her 100th birthday in Liverpool. For additional paintings, and works in other media, visit the web page Peintres-et-sculpteurs. Georges Paul François Laurent Laugée Georges Paul François Laurent Laugée (19 December 1853 – 5 December 1937) was a Naturalist French Painter of the 19th and early 20th century. Georges Paul François Laurent Laugée was born on 19 December 1853, the"
"1924. Louis Dumoulin Louis-Jules Dumoulin (Paris, 1860–1924) was a French artist and painter. He traveled in the Far East and was the founder of the Société Coloniale des Artistes Français in 1908. Dumoulin is an Orientalist painter linked to the official artistic circles and a great traveler from the various missions that will be entrusted to him. He made his first major trip outside Europe in 1888 on the occasion of an official mission to Japan ordered by the Ministry of Education. 2. In 1908 he co-founded the Colonial Society of French Artists and was its president until his death"
"Member: The French Artists Society Exhibition: La Societe des Artistes Francais Reference: Dictionnaire des Petits Maitres de la Peinture 1820-1920, by Gerald Schurr & Pierre Cabanne, pg. 50-51, Tomes I, A and H. Gaston Anglade Gaston Vincent Anglade (1854 – 1919) was a French impressionist painter known for his pastoral scenes of Dordogne, Pyrenées and Alsace. Anglade was born in Bordeaux and worked in Paris and Dordogne. He studied with Léon Germain Pelouse (1838–1891) and made his reputation with paintings of mist-infused, multi-layered landscapes in a style similar to that of William Didier-Pouget. The large number of similar landscapes he"
"10). Such paintings, exhibited both in the Paris Salons and the exhibitions of Mulhouse’s Société des Arts, stand out thanks to his polychromatic palette. The uniform light, creating the paintings’ peaceful atmosphere, is consistent with contemporary painting, with its paring down of detail and simplification of form. In 1957 the Raymond Duncan Gallery in Paris mounted a retrospective of this painter ‘of luminous landscapes’, to use the words of the famous Alsatian illustrator and cartoonist Henri Zislin. Lucien Vogt died in 1968. Lucien Vogt Lucien Vogt (born in New York City, died ), was an American painter and illustrator ."
"sea views, ports and ships, but also cityscapes. Over the course of his career he often returned to the same subjects, even years later, recording subtle differences in the light. He painted a few portraits, and between 1910 and 1914 he painted a series of nudes in whorehouses, and prepared the illustration of a work on lesbian lovers. But he is best known for his many landscapes. Unlike Matisse, there are no obvious periods of change in his work. As one of Matisse's closest friends, they discussed each other's work with the greatest openness. Marquet's death was unexpected and sudden,"
"who painted the figures and dog in the landscape. A painted in collaboration with Frans Francken the Younger (Château de Compiègne) showing an open view of a river is uncharacteristic for his oeuvre. Abraham Govaerts Abraham Govaerts (name variations: Goevaerts, Gouvaert, Goyvaert, Goyvaerts, Godvarte, Goijvaerts) (1589 – 9 September 1626) was a Flemish painter who specialized in small cabinet-sized forest landscapes in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo. He was born in Antwerp where his father was an art dealer. There is no information on his training. In view of the influence on his early"