Realism – At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Lhermitte: Master of Charcoal and Pastel

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William Adolphe Bouguereau: La Petite Esméralda

“The subject is Emeralda, the young gypsy who taught her goat tricks in order to earn her subsistence in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Paris) by Victor Hugo. The tragic figure of Esmeralda, who meets her end through the machinations of the Church based on charges of which she is completely innocent,…

Léon Augustin Lhermitte: The Harvesters

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Léon-Augustin Lhermitte: La Famille

“By the time Lhermitte took up the harvesting themes and country market scenes that would make his name, the wide-spread antagonism that had greeted Jean-François Millet’s paintings of working peasants thirty years earlier had largely disappeared, dissipated by an improving rural economy and by a political climate that deliberately celebrated the peasant as a mainstay…

Bach, Bouguereau, and Hilary Hahn

“L’Attente is a late expression of the subject matter that appealed to Bouguereau throughout his long artistic career. The painting is a fantasie, or a theme inspired by Antiquity.”L’Attente is a late expression of the subject matter that appealed to Bouguereau throughout his long artistic career. The painting is a fantasie, or a theme inspired…

William Adolphe Bouguereau: Fardeau Agréable

“In Fardeau Agréable, as in nearly all of Bouguereau’s work, the industrial age is not evident, no buildings mar the landscape, and no smoke clouds the skies of the imagined Arcadia. Bouguereau raises his figures above the harsh truth of day-to-day existence in the French peasant countryside and exalts the joy and tenderness of youth…

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte: The Little Goose Girl of Mézy

The Little Goose Girl of Mézy is Léon Lhermitte’s most important single-figure painting, a work that forthrightly declares its modernity in the directness of the young goose girl’s interaction with the viewer and in the slashing knife and brushwork that so tangibly conveys the stubbled grain field on which she stands…With her small bundle of…

Larry Fleet: Where I Find God

Beethoven and Bouguereau’s “Little Shepherdess”

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Aretha Franklin: Let It Be

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Lullaby (1873)

“”Berceuse (Le coucher) was painted in the artist’s Paris studio in 1873 and holds a prominent place in this category of works which was particularly dear to the artist. In the present painting, a young Roman mother holds a naked infant and is gently moving him into his cradle. The central group is framed by…

The Three Marys at the Tomb

Hat Tip Many thanks to Sister Renee at Lavish Mercy for introducing me to this painting in the post Don’t Be Afraid. Read More William Adolphe Bouguereau at The Art Story William Adolphe Bouguereau at wikiwand See More William Adolphe Bouguereau At Sunnyside William Adolphe Bouguereau at wikimedia commons William Adolphe Bouguereau wikidata chart of…

William Adolphe Bouguereau: The Pieta

“The immediate inspiration for Pietà came not from Bouguereau’s devout Christianity, but from the painful loss of his eldest son Georges who died on July 19, 1875 at the age of sixteen. After spending several months overwhelmed by grief, Bouguereau sought to lift his spirits by fully immersing himself in his art. For several weeks,…

Beethoven: String quartet in A minor

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Malcolm Guite: Unless a Grain of Wheat…

Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls into the Ground and Dies by Malcolm Guite Oh let me fall as grain to the good earth And die away from all dry separation, Die to my sole self, and find new birth Within that very death, a dark fruition, Deep in this crowded underground, to learn The…

William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Yvonne sur le pas de la porte (1901)

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William Adolphe Bouguereau: The Young Shepherdess (1885)

Léon Augustin Lhermitte: La vendange à Mont-Saint-Père

“La vendange à Mont-Saint-Père effectively combines all of the hallmarks of Lhermitte’s most sought-after works: peasants at work in an expansive landscape with multiple figures at various stages of the labor involved in bringing in a harvest of grapes. The composition is complex, with the placement of the figures carefully arranged in order to lead…

William Adolphe Bouguereau: Le lever (1865)

“Beginning in 1865, Bouguereau became interested in themes of mothers and children and he began a series of paintings devoted to this subject matter. These classically informed images were greatly influenced by Bouguereau’s travels throughout Italy in the 1850s…Le lever is the second painting executed that year by the artist and in this work, Bouguereau…

William Adolphe Bouguereau, Song of the Angels (1881)

Henri Fantin-Latour: Asters and Fruit on Table

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Jules Breton: La Falaise

Jules Breton, Realist Painter of Rustic Life Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1827 – 1906) was a 19th-century French Realist painter, poet, and writer born in Courrières, a small Pas-de-Calais village. He was one of the best known painters of his period in his native France, as well as England and the United States. The…

László Mednyánszky: Iron Gate on the Danube (1890-95)

Video Baron László Mednyánszky (1852 – 1919) Hungarian artist Baron László Mednyánszky or Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky, a Hungarian painter-philosopher, is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Hungarian art. Despite an aristocratic background, he spent most of his life moving around Europe working as an artist. Wikipedia Born: April 23,…

Wilhelm Wachtel: The King of Israel Viewing Jerusalem…

Who Is Wilhelm Wachtel? According to Leo Baeck Institute Art and Objects: Wilhelm Wachtel was a Jewish-Polish realist painter and illustrator. Born in Lviv,[Ukraine], he studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts under Leon Wyczółkowski and Leopold Löffler, and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Nikolaus Gysisa. He traveled to Vienna,…

Jean-François Millet: Calling Home the Cattle (late 1850s)

This painting brings back fond memories of my grandparents’ small farm and the people who shaped my childhood. If I shut my eyes and unplug the electronics, I can feel the utter peace of the twilight hillside at the foot of the Great Smokey Mountains. It is nearing sunset, and Grandaddy brings the cows up…