Théodore Rousseau (1*)

Sunset in the Auvergne (detail), 1844

Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812 – December 22, 1867) was a French painter of the Barbizon school.
Rousseau's pictures are always grave in character, with an air of exquisite melancholy. They are well finished when they profess to be completed pictures, but Rousseau spent so much time developing his subjects that his absolutely completed works are comparatively few. He left many canvases with parts of the picture realized in detail and with the remainder somewhat vague; and also a good number of sketches and water-color drawings. His pen work in monochrome on paper is rare. There are a number of good pictures by him in the Louvre, and the Wallace collection contains one of his most important Barbizon pictures. There is also an example in the Ionides collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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James Tissot

Remembrance Ball on Board 1877

Women of Paris, The Circus Lover, 1885

James Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902) was a French painter, who spent much of his career in Britain.

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Pointillism: Georges Seurat

Georges Pierre Seurat (French, 1859 – 1891)

Landscape at Saint-Ouen, 1879

Man leaning on a parapet (1879)

Pink Landscape, 1882-1883

Forest Path, Barbizon, 1883

The Bridge - View of the Seine, 1883

oil on wood

Bank of the Seine, circa 1884

The Anchorage at Grandcamp - circa 1885

The Port of Honfleur (1886)

Snow Effect, Winter in in the Suburbs (1888)

The Eiffel Tower (1889)

Grandcamp, Evening (detail)

Paysage, homme assis (étude pour Un Dimanche d’été à l’Ile de La Grande Jatte)

Ein Abend am Kanal von Gravelines

Landscape

Study for “Les poseuses”

Georges Pierre Seurat (1859 – 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the technique of painting known as pointillism. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism. It is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.

Seurat’s color system — pointillism — involved dividing colors into their component parts and applying those colors to the canvas in tiny dots. The forms become comprehensible only from a distance.

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French Fauvism: Albert Marquet (part II)

The Port of Naples, 1909

Vue du Palais du Luxembourg

Le Jardin de Luxembourg

Oil on canvas, 38 x 45.9 cm.

Paris, Pont de La Tournelle

Trellis on an Algerian Terrace

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French Impressionism: Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 – 1895)

Hide and Seek, 1873

Boats Entry to the Medina in the Isle of Wight, 1875

Oil on canvas, 17.5 x 19 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Cheval Glass, 1876

Dahlias, circa 1876

 Young Girl in a Ball Gown, 1879

The Port of Nice, 1882

Roses Tremieres, 1884

The Garden at Bougival, 1884

 Tulips, 1890

 Jeune fille écrivant, 1891

Landscape of Tours 1892

Geraniums by the Lake, 1893

Forest of Fontainebleau, 1893

Berthe Morisot - Bateau illuminé

Jeune femme près d’une fenêtre

Landscape

The port of Nice

The quay at Bougival

Paysage

Paule Gobillard - Berthe Morisot Painting

Berthe Morisot, 1875

Berthe Morisot (1841 – 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroyin 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.

In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris. Sponsored by the government, and judged by academicians, the Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris. Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the "rejected" Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. It was held at the studio of the photographer Nadar.

She became the sister-in-law of her friend and colleague, Édouard Manet, when she married his brother, Eugène.

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