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Tag Archives: France
1863: Sheep in a Boat
Rosa Bonheur: Changing Pastures (1863)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, France, Landscapes, LGBTQ, Mammals, Painting, Rosa Bonheur, Scotland, Sheep, Ships & Sailing, Water, Women
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1649: Descartes’s Wooden Daughter
When Descartes resided in Holland, with great labour and industry he made a female Automaton—which occasioned some wicked wits to publish that he had an illegitimate daughter, named Franchine—to prove demonstratively that beasts have no souls, and that they are … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 18th Century, Automata, Children, Fathers, France, Julien La Mettrie, Miniatures, Netherlands, Philosophy, René Descartes
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1913: Sunset
Félix Vallotton: Sunset (1913)
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Tagged Art, Félix Vallotton, France, Painting, Seascapes, Switzerland, The Sun
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1918: Sunset
Félix Vallotton: Sunset at Grace, Orange and Violet Sky (1918)
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Art, Félix Vallotton, France, Landscapes, Painting, Seascapes, Switzerland, The Sun
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1946: Encounter
Victor Brauner: La rencontre du 2 bis rue Perrel [Encounter at 2B Rue Perrel] (1946)
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, Ducks, France, Painting, Romania, The Moon, Victor Brauner
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1894: La vitrioleuse
Eugène Samuel Grasset: La vitrioleuse [The Acid Thrower] (1894)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Crime, Eugène Samuel Grasset, France, Printmaking, Women
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2nd Century AD: I Was Trained to Run Boldly through Strange Forests
A 1st or 2nd century Roman epitaph for a pet dog named Margarita (“Pearl”), written from the point of view of the deceased: [G]ALLIA · ME · GENVIT · NOMEN · MIHI · DIVITIS · VNDAE CONCHA · DEDIT · … Continue reading
1875: An Absolute Democracy
The notion has always very generally prevailed that the queen of the bees is an absolute ruler, and issues her royal orders to willing subjects. Hence Napoleon the First sprinkled the symbolic bees over the imperial mantle that bore the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1870's, 1880's, 19th Century, Animals, Bees, Books, Democracy, France, Insects, John Burroughs, Louis Auzoux, Poltical Science, Sculpture, USA
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1950: Murals
“In the Spring of 1950, Francine Weisweiller invited…Jean Cocteau to the villa for dinner and basically he and his handsome boyfriend…Edouard Dermit ended up moving in and staying for 13 years….Cocteau offered to do a drawing over the fireplace in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Drawing, France, Interior Design, Jean Cocteau, LGBTQ
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1857: Clouds
Gustave Le Gray: Marine, étude de nuages (1856-57)
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Tagged 1850's, 19th Century, Art, France, Gustave Le Gray, Photography, Seascapes, The Sky
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