Paul Iribe, a graphic designer and satirical illustrator, has influenced both top-end fashion designers as well as the public’s opinion in times of political disenchantment. Satire, simplicity and aesthetic design can best describe his oeuvre, which illustrates the fiascos of the French politics, the distress of WWI and the elegant flamboyance of the following années folles.   Inspired … Continue reading « Paul Iribe »

In four different scenes, people of all conditions are united around one object: the fan, central point of the composition. We see a gathering on a Spanish square on a hot afternoon, a stroll through the market, a venture in an Asian sedan chair, or a reclination in an Oriental harem. Beyond its primary use, … Continue reading « Ernest Meissonier »

Eugène Lami signed with the present sheet a wonderful example of his work as an illustrator of Walter Scott’s stories.   Referring to the narrative poem The Lady of the Lake (1810), the present sheet could be linked to two different moments in the story. It could be an interpretation of the beginning of the … Continue reading « Eugène Lami »

It is a brilliant example of Charles-Auguste Edelmann’s interest for nudes and eroticism, through classical themes and scenes. Formed at the École des Beaux Arts de Paris in Jean-Léon Gérôme and Ferdinand Humbert’s studios, at the turn of the finishing 19th c., the artist started his career with scenes of misery and poverty. Later, he … Continue reading « Charles-Auguste Edelmann »

An impressive red and black chalk figure of the newly reappraised Georges Dorignac. This monumental drawing is one of the key figure of Dorignac’s work from 1911-1914. The gypsy-like aspect of this head may have been inspired by the Spanish painters and friends of Dorignac at La Ruche, a city of artists in Paris, where … Continue reading « Georges Dorignac »

Hermann Wöhler work is one the best rediscoveries made from the German art of the 1920’s. Die Sonne is part of the virtual series Der Paraklet. Sieben Bilder aus den Tagen des Retters un zum Gedächtnis an den frühe Heimgegangenen [The Paraclete. Seven images from the Days of the Saviours to the memory of the … Continue reading « Hermann Wöhler »

The image is after the Venetian painter Jacopo Ligozzi and represents the Virgin and Child, with Saint John the Baptist as a child, Saint Francis on the right and Saint Catherine of Siena on the left. This is a simplified version of the classical representation of the holy relationship of Jesus which usually also included Anne, … Continue reading « Andrea Andreani »

“C’est vraiment de l’art, parce que cela sort d’un rêve et d’un cœur” [“It’s really art, because it comes out of a dream and a heart”], said a critic about Danguy . This delicate and superb portrait is one of the best pieces by the symbolist painter Jean Danguy. His symbolist oeuvre – in painting … Continue reading « Jean Danguy »

This work is the most spectacular and most celebrated of George Morren’s neo-impressionist oeuvre. The piece is equally among the greatest specimens of the pointillism movement in Belgium in the early 1890’s. In his early twenties, Morren presented this work at his first salon, which was organized in Antwerp by the Association pour l’Art in … Continue reading « George Morren »

Born in Reims in 1798, Alphonse Périn studied in Paris in the atelier of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, where he met in 1817 his life-long best companion, the painter Victor Orsel. During this period, Périn dedicated himself to the genre of historical landscapes, notably close to the master Jean-Victor Bertin, himself a former pupil of Pierre-Henri Valenciennes. … Continue reading « Alphonse-Henri Périn »