7.10.17

Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928) was a French painter specialized in elegant genre works, and flowers.  Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses.  She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy.  She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particulier on the Rue de Monceau. 

6.10.17

Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928) was a French painter specialized in elegant genre works, and flowers.  Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses.  She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy.  She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particulier on the Rue de Monceau. 

1.10.17

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting.  Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists.  His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists.  Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work. 

19.9.17

Louis Valtat (1869-1952) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves ("the wild beasts", so named for their wild use of color), who first exhibited together in 1905 at the Salon d'Automne.  He is noted as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse. 

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