chantducygne:

Madame Cézanne dans un feuteuil rouge (1877)

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

Now displayed at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts’ huge exhibition, ‘Cézanne and the Past’…

Paysage nabique

Paul Ranson (French, 1864-1909)

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Street in a Near Eastern Town by William James Müller (1812‑1845), 1838, graphite and watercolour on paper, 24,7 x 14,5 cm, Tate Gallery, London

Müller was one of the first British artists to go to Egypt, travelling there in 1838–9. He wrote that ‘of all the spots I had ever seen for the artist’ this sort of street scene ‘would prove the most fertile for his pencil’.

The Islamic world had long fascinated Western audiences, though they had generally been satisfied with recycled fantasies. Müller’s sketch represents a new, eye-witness approach. By the late 1830s biblical archaeology, and an escalation of European diplomatic and military activity in the area, fuelled demand for more convincing documentary images of the Middle East.

(www.tate.org.uk)

Study for ‘The Courtyard of the Coptic Patriarch’s House in Cairo’ by John Frederick Lewis (1805-1876), c.1864, oil on wood, 36,8 x 35,6 cm,Tate Modern, London

This study of the patriarch’s house was executed after Lewis’s return from Egypt in 1851, using the sketches he brought back.

This work highlights Lewis’s ability to paint figures and setting with careful attention to light and shade, produced here by the top-lit courtyard.Lewis caused a sensation when he exhibited one of his Near Eastern scenes in London in 1850. John Ruskin admired his attention to detail, claiming that in truth-to-nature he ranked alongside the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. (www.tate.org.uk)

This building must be today’s Coptic Museum!!

The Bazaar of the Ghûriyah from the Steps of the Mosque of El-Ghûri, Cairo by John Frederick Lewis, 1841-51, graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper, 54,0 x 37,9 cm, Tate Gallery, London

After visiting Italy, Greece and Spain in search of subject matter, Lewis went to Egypt  in 1841. He stayed there for ten years and continued to paint Middle- Eastern scenes until the end of his life.

This sketch was probably created on the spot. It shows the bazaar in the street of the Ghûriyah on the east side of the mosque of El-Ghûri. Lewis’s art provided English viewers with a persuasive vision of Middle- Eastern life, based on first hand observations like this. Nonetheless, his finished paintings incorporated many traditional fantasies and assumptions about the Islamic world. (www.tate.org.uk)

170 years later, it looks exactly the same…

stilllifequickheart:

Gustave Courbet

Pink and White Roses

19th century

labellefilleart:

Across the Room (or By the Window),  Edmund Tarbell

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le-desir-de-lautre:

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)

Le Petit Déjeuner [Breakfast]

1894

oil on cardboard, 26.9 × 22.9 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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windypoplarsroom:

Odilon Redon

“Portrait of Jeanne Chaine”