Archive for diciembre 2013
The fife (Fichas De Arte)
The fife is a painting by French painter Édouard Manet made in 1866. At present, is preserved in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris .
It is known that between 1872 and 1873 remained in the box the private collection of Paul Durand- Ruel , gallery owner and art dealer who supported the young painters who would form the impressionist group. Between 1873 and 1893 the box was held by Jean -Baptiste Faure, French composer and baritone , a friend of Manet. In 1893 , again the fabric collection Durand- Ruel , to be acquired the following year by the Earl of Camondo Isaac , in whose collection it remained until 1911 , when it was delivered to the French state as a donation . The picture was intended to the Louvre , where they will be exposed to the public until 1914. In 1947 he was transferred , along with other works of Impressionist authors, the Gallery of the Jeu de Paume , a showroom located in the Jardin des Tuileries and the Louvre belonging . He remained there until 1986 , when , with the creation of the Musée d'Orsay , was transferred to the museum , like the rest of the collection of Impressionist paintings from the Louvre. Currently he can be seen in Hall 14 at level 0 of the Orsay Museum .
Girl entering the bath (Fichas De Arte)
Girl entering the bath is a canvas 86 x 106 cm painted by Joaquín Sorolla in Valencia beach during the summer of 1915 , a period of rest of the work he was doing for the Hispanic Society of America . It depicts a young girl , possibly his daughter Elena , at the time of entering the water, the background can be seen two boats and children playing . The composition having magnificent color effects formed by the light of its impact on the sand and the sea, is centered on the beach and in the movement of small , not being visible horizon . It is a mature work of the painter.
The first owner of the painting was the art dealer Just Bou , which sold it to the collector and bibliophile Maria Bauza.1
It was exhibited for the first time in public in May 2009 . The Sotheby 's in London auctioned it on June 3, 2009 , was acquired by an American collector to the final price of 1.9 million euros. The other work of Sorolla 18-11-2003 similar theme titled Bath time , reached a record price of 5.3 million
The withdrawal of the Gleaners (Fichas de Arte)
With this Call of Gleaners Jules Breton represents a current scene of peasant life in Courrières , his hometown in Artois . Choose represent the Gleaners , the thin crescent room up on the left, the presence of the ranger , attached to a cairn, calling to collection with hands spokesman , however with the setting sun behind the trees providing the box and the warm golden light of a sunset .
Despite the presence of some more realistic details like the worn and torn clothes and bare feet of women, the painter has completely idealized scene . The nobility of the bids , the haughty bearing of the peasants, the treatment composition frieze provide nobility and poetry, to the set.
Abandoning the representation of the laborious poverty of its inception, the benefit of an idyllic and picturesque view of the working world , Jules Breton favors reviewed and wins public . Presented at the Salon in 1859 , the work has a great success and even the attention of the Empress Eugenie . The latter makes buying civil list of Napoleon III. First presented at the castle of Saint -Cloud , then added , thanks to a donation of the emperor in 1862 , the collections of the Luxembourg Museum , museum for living artists.
