The Theater Box, 1874 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London

Pierre-Auguste Renoir ( 1841–1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau." ^More...

La loge (The Theater Box) is an 1874 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, considered one of his masterpieces. It is part of the collection at Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Bank of the Seine at Argenteuil by Edouard Manet

Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.More...

Lucas Cranach, Adam end Eve, 1526

Lucas Cranach the Elder (4 October 1472 – 16 October 1553), was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm, becoming a close friend of Martin Luther. He also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued throughout his career to paint nude subjects drawn from mythology and religion. More...

The Lady and the unicorn Hearing, from Musée de Cluny,Paris

Hearing

The lady plays a portative organ on top of a table covered with a Turkish rug. Her maidservant stands to the opposite side and operates the bellows. The lion and unicorn once again frame the scene holding up the pennants. Just as on all the other tapestries, the unicorn is to the lady's left and the lion to her right - a common denominator to all the tapestries.

Tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn (Taste), from Musée de Cluny,Paris

 Taste. The lady is taking sweets from a dish held by a maidservant. Her eyes are on a parakeet on her upheld left hand. The lion and the unicorn are both standing on their hind legs reaching up to pennants that frame the lady on either side. The monkey is at her feet, eating one of the sweetmeats.

The Lady and the Unicorn (French: La Dame à la licorne) is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries woven in Flanders of wool and silk, from designs ("cartoons") drawn in Paris in the late fifteenth century, The suite, on display in the Musée du Moyen-Âge, is often considered one of the greatest works of art of the Middle Ages in Europe.
Five of the tapestries are commonly interpreted as depicting the five senses – taste, hearing, sight, smell, and touch. The sixth displays the words "À mon seul désir". The tapestry's meaning is obscure, but has been interpreted as representing love or understanding. Each of the six tapestries depicts a noble lady with the unicorn on her left and a lion on her right; some include a monkey in the scene. The pennants, as well as the armor of the Unicorn and Lion in the tapestry bear the arms of the sponsor, Jean Le Viste, a powerful nobleman in the court of King Charles VII. More...

 The Musée de Cluny, officially known as Musée National du Moyen Âge (National Museum of the Middle Ages), is a museum in Paris, France. It is located in the 5th arrondissement at 6 Place Paul Painlevé, south of the Boulevard Saint-Germain, between the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue Saint-Jacques. More...

Vincent Perriol "Jugs and flowers..."

http://eu.art.com/gallery/id--a68632/vincent-perriol-prints.htm?ui=F8A92B441BF74320BE4E9D2B76784142

Thank you very much for the birthday greeting, Ilona :) ♥ 

Claude Monet. Nympheas.1907

Bookmark from the Museum Marmottan Monet. Paris  http://www.marmottan.com/english/presentation/museum-history.asp

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Claude Monet. Nympheas. 1916-1919 Bookmark from the Museum Marmottan Monet. Paris

http://www.marmottan.com/english/presentation/museum-history.asp

Claude Monet  (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). More...


Water Lilies (or Nymphéas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.   More...

The page https://www.artsy.net/artist/claude-monet with Monet's bio, over 75 of his works, exclusive articles, as well as up-to-date Monet exhibition listings. The page even includes related artist & category tags, plus suggested contemporary artists.

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Dona Amalia de Llano

"Portrait of Dona Amalia de Llano y Dotres, Countess of Vilches" http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia_de_Llano. Spanish painter Federico de Madrazo (12 February 1815 – 11 June 1894). From Museum del Prado .

Very beautiful ♥ Thank you very much, Maica :)