L'image représente le portrait d'un jeune enfant, probablement un garçon, portant un masque qui lui couvre le haut de la tête et les cheveux. Cette huile sur toile, réalisée entre 1840 et 1856 par le peintre académique français Jean-Léon Gérôme, est intitulée « Jeune Homme avec un masque » et a été acquise en 2023 par le musée d'Orsay à Paris. Elle est présentée dans un cadre ovale doré richement orné. L'enfant a des yeux vifs et curieux et un teint pâle et doux. Ses cheveux, d'un roux flamboyant, semblent très bouclés et débordent du masque. Il est vêtu d'une ample robe vert émeraude qui lui drape les épaules et la poitrine. Dans sa main droite, il tient un petit objet doré, peut-être un parchemin ou un morceau de bois, retenu par un fin ruban rouge qui semble également enroulé autour du masque. Le masque lui-même est d'un blanc grisâtre pâle, avec un visage sculpté aux contours indistincts, suggérant des traits comme des yeux et un nez. Elle est positionnée comme une coiffe ou un élément de costume. Le fond du tableau est d'un bleu profond et atmosphérique, contrastant avec les tons chauds de l'enfant et du cadre. La composition est centrée sur le visage de l'enfant, attirant le regard du spectateur sur son regard direct. La source de lumière semble provenir de la gauche, projetant de subtiles ombres sur le côté droit de son visage et sur les objets qu'il tient. Le cadre est ouvragé, orné de sculptures complexes représentant des motifs floraux, des feuilles et de petites grappes de raisin. D'une riche couleur dorée, avec une patine plus foncée dans les creux, il souligne la texture des sculptures. Le tableau est exposé sur un mur rouge foncé et uni. L'impression générale est celle d'un mélange de mystère et d'innocence juvénile, juxtaposé à une touche d'artifice ou de déguisement. Les couleurs sont riches et saturées, le rouge vif des cheveux et du ruban se détachant sur les bleus et les verts froids, le tout encadré par le doré chaud.

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Raoul Dufy
Cornets d’arums et fleurs sur fond bleu, 1919
gouache on paper
64 x 49 cm

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Raoul Dufy
Bouquet de fleurs aux arums, 1951
watercolour on paper
50 x 65 cm

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This image is of the painting "Arearea" (also known as "Joyeusetés") by French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin, completed in 1892

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André Haguet 1923 "Le Vetement D'Eté"

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At sunrise, six women move together across a soft green hillside in spring. At the front right, a tall young woman in a luminous yellow-green gown leads barefoot, her body turned in profile toward the pale rising sun. Violet blossoms edge her neckline, and a long golden sash falls along one side. Behind her, five companions follow in airy, almost transparent light blue gowns, their dresses pooling in cool folds. One is partly obscured among the others, creating a layered procession rather than a neat line. Their skin is light. Their hair ranges from auburn to blonde and brown, and most wear it softly pinned up. None meet our gaze. All attention turns outward over their left shoulder towards the hush of dawn. Pink-lavender hills, still water, flowering branches, and a sky washed with pearl, peach, and mauve surround them in a mood of quiet awakening. The title "Aurore" points first to dawn itself, and the painting clearly stages a passage from night into first light. Research suggests the image was understood as more than a decorative morning allegory. The leading woman in green can be read as Dawn personified, while the blue-robed companions feel like attendant spirits of spring, hours, or renewal, but the work’s meaning remains deliberately expansive. Scholar Anna Zsófia Kovács has argued that this “inscrutable allegory” may also have been received as a political metaphor, helping explain why its acquisition by the Hungarian state in 1893 drew such notice. That reading gives extra force to the procession’s forward movement as not only nature waking, but a collective national emergence toward promise, change, and light. Suspended between French academic allegory and Symbolist atmosphere, French artist Jean-Paul Sinibaldi’s painting makes the break of day feel both seasonal and historical ... like a vision of renewal that invites us to imagine what, exactly, is beginning.

“Aurore” (Break of Day) by Jean-Paul Sinibaldi (French) - Oil on canvas / 1893 - Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Hungary) #WomenInArt #JeanPaulSinibaldi #Sinibaldi #MuseumOfFineArtsBudapest #MFAB #arte #arttext #art #SymbolistArt #AllegoryArt #paintingofwomen #FrenchArtist #frenchart #1890sArt

French artist Eugène Delacroix painted this work after his 1832 journey to North Africa, and it quickly became one of the best-known images of 19th-century French Orientalism. Its brilliance lies in color, surface, and mood as burnished reds, smoky greens, mauves, and pearly whites create a suspended moment that feels private rather than dramatic. Four women occupy an intimate interior, though only three are seated together at the center of the scene while a fourth, a Black “attendant,” walks by at right in profile, her body turned as if she has just paused mid-step. At left, one woman reclines against stacked cushions, looking at us with a calm, slightly tired gaze. She wears layered necklaces, a low white chemise, and richly trimmed garments in cream, gold, coral, and blue. The two women in the middle sit cross-legged on a carpet, leaning subtly toward one another. One wears a translucent blouse and abundant jewelry. The other, dressed in white with pink trim and green trousers, lowers her head toward a hookah placed on the tiled floor. Slippers, a small brazier, patterned rugs, ceramic wall tiles, a red cabinet with glass vessels, a gilt mirror, and a heavy curtain deepen the room’s textured quiet. Light skims skin, silk, gauze, and metal, making the atmosphere feel both hushed and sensuous. The painting also asks for careful viewing. This is not a neutral document of Algerian life, but a French artist’s constructed vision shaped by colonial-era fascination, selective access, and unequal power. The women are presented as inward, self-contained presences rather than active performers, which gives the scene unusual psychological depth. The standing attendant complicates the picture further, drawing attention to race, labor, and hierarchy inside this luxurious space. Acquired by the French state in 1834, the painting later became a touchstone for generations of artists, including Picasso, who returned to it repeatedly.

“Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement” (Women of Algiers in Their Apartment) by Eugène Delacroix (French) - Oil on canvas / 1834 - Musée du Louvre (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #EugeneDelacroix #Delacroix #EugèneDelacroix #LouvreMuseum #MuseeDuLouvre #LeLouvre #arte #artText #FrenchArt #Orientalism

Suzanne Valadon
French artist
1865-1938

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LCVM25-92, acrylic and collage on paper,
14,7 x 11,6 inches / 37,3 x 29,4 cm
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The Musée de l’Orangerie describes this painting as one of French artist Henri Matisse’s masterworks, and its force comes from balance rather than drama: different moods, discordant colors, and layered spatial effects held in visual equilibrium. Three young women sit close together before a warm brown background, their bodies arranged in a compact triangular grouping that fills the canvas. The sitters are generally identified as the Arpino sisters: Loreta (often written Laurette or Lorette), Rosa, and Maria Elena Arpino. All three are dark-haired young women with light to olive skin tones, shown in distinct but interrelated poses. Two look outward with calm, self-possessed expressions, while the third turns inward, absorbed in a large book. Their dresses differ in color and pattern, creating rhythm rather than uniformity. Matisse simplifies faces, hands, and fabric into broad, deliberate shapes, so the sisters read both as individuals and as parts of a carefully ordered whole. The setting is spare and compressed, drawing attention to posture, gaze, and the tension between intimacy and separateness. The museum also notes possible inspirations ranging from Manet and Japanese prints to Les dames de Gand, then attributed to David, while also revisiting the motif in related versions now associated with the Barnes Foundation. Painted in 1917, this work stands at a transitional moment in Matisse’s career, just as he was pushing portraiture toward greater formal clarity and emotional compression. The sisters become more than sitters. They form a living structure through which Matisse explores harmony built from difference via attention and withdrawal, individuality and kinship, plus softness and design.

“Les Trois Sœurs” (The Three Sisters) by Henri Matisse (French) - Oil on canvas / 1917 - Musée de l’Orangerie (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #HenriMatisse #Matisse #MuseeOrangerie #PortraitofWomen #arte #artText #1910sArt #art #FrenchArtist #FamilyPortrait #FrenchArt #ThreeSisters #MuséeOrangerie

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LCVM25-88, acrylic and collage on paper, 14,9 x 11,6 inches / 37,8 x 29,5 cm #greenpainting #greenart #texture #lignes #graphicwave #graphisme #abstractart #painting #abstraction #frenchart #yellowpaint #mixedmedia

Weird picture of the day: 'The Howl' by Jean Veber, 1910.
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French artist François Boucher made the pastoral his signature language, and by the mid-1700s, he was in high demand for decorative paintings that blended sensual surfaces (silk, skin, flowers) with storytelling. Painted in 1750, this scene is less “country life” than a Rococo fantasy of feeling, where tenderness, leisure, and desire can unfold safely in a cultivated nature. A dove (a classic messenger of love and fidelity) turns private emotion into action as affection becomes a letter, sealed and sent. Two young women sit close together on a mossy bank in a shaded woodland clearing. Both have fair, peach-toned skin, softly rouged cheeks, and carefully styled curls. The woman on the right sits slightly higher, her posture relaxed and protective as one arm circles her companion’s shoulders and she tilts her head and smiles with a tender, knowing expression. She wears a rose-pink dress with a striped skirt and airy white sleeves plus pink blossoms and small blue-yellow flowers cluster in her hair. The woman on the left leans into her, gazing up in profile. Her lavender dress shimmers like silk, warmed with gold highlights, and small blue flowers pin back her brown curls. Their bare feet peek from beneath their hems, emphasizing an intimate, unguarded moment rather than formal display. Between them rests a white dove with a blue ribbon tied at its neck. A pale envelope is held in the right woman’s hand, as if the message is about to be entrusted to/from the bird. Around them, a small pastoral “stage” includes 5 sheep and an alert black-and-white hound. A basket of flowers spills color at the lower edge. Behind, a stone structure rises, topped by a reclining lion sculpture. Tall trees arc overhead, and the distant hills dissolve into blue haze beneath a softly clouded sky. Whether innocence, desire, or the thrilling act of sending a secret, these women’s closeness feels like mutual confiding and encouraging so friendship is a shelter and catalyst.

“The Love Letter” by François Boucher (French) - Oil on canvas / 1750 - National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #FrancoisBoucher #FrançoisBoucher #Boucher #NationalGalleryofArt #NGA #Rococo #FrenchArt #PastoralArt #art #artText #arte #BlueskyArt #LoveLetter #1750s #LoveArt #FrenchArtist

“Danseuses” feels less like a portrait of two specific people than an image of stage work with glamour built from repetition, endurance, and control. French artist Lucien Maillol depicts a pair of dancers simplified into strong volumes, their weight described through stance and counter-stance more than facial drama. It is both celebration and constraint as the dancers are vividly visible, yet emotionally self-contained and absorbed in their own rhythm, not ours. Two adult women occupy the foreground in a warm, brown-gold music hall or cabaret. Both have light skin and short dark hair tucked beneath wide, brick-red hats trimmed with small flowers. Their faces are softly modeled with stage makeup like rouged lips, shaded eyelids while their eyes angle downward, suggesting concentration rather than performance “to” us. Each wears long black gloves above the elbow and a deep, shimmering black dress with a plunging neckline. The skirts bloom into thick black tulle that becomes a dark cloud around their legs. Their bodies mirror one another in a synchronized step of knees bent, torsos angled, and arms extended as if holding balance and timing. Red high heels echo the hats, punctuating the movement with bright, sharp accents. The pairing matters as two bodies moving as one to depict chorus-line discipline and a way nightlife often turned women into coordinated spectacle. Yet their downcast focus complicates that because they appear absorbed in their own rhythm, poised between visibility and inwardness. That tension of being seen while staying self-possessed becomes the painting’s quiet charge. Maillol, born in Banyuls-sur-Mer in 1896, was in his early thirties when he made this work in 1928. That same year he exhibited paintings in Paris at Galerie Eugène Druet in a show explicitly listing “danseuses,” suggesting the subject belonged to his active artistic concerns rather than a single passing scene.

“Danseuses (Dancers)” by Lucien Maillol (French) - Oil on canvas / 1928 - Musée d’Art moderne de Paris (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #artText #arte #art #LucienMaillol #Maillol #MuseeDArtModerneDeParis #ModernArt #DanceArt #BlueskyArt #FrenchArtist #FrenchArt #dancer #1920s #Muséed’ArtModerneDeParis

Abribus VI: Rosa Parks, M.Orts, 10 cm x 15 cm, Chinese Ink & Ink on recycled paper, September 2025.

Serie: Abribus
6/6

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New here ✨ Some of the commissions I do with coffee for my customers !

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New here ✨ Some of the commissions I do with coffee for my customers !

Happy to discover new artist, so just put a comm about your work so I can look a your work 💕

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New here ✨ Happy to discover new artist, so just put a comm so I can look a your work 💕

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A woman with light skin sits facing us across a marble-topped table in a café in this vertical painting. Her body is angled slightly to our right, and she rests her right elbow, on our left, on the table. She leans her right cheek onto the back of her right hand as she gazes into the distance. She holds a cigarette in her other hand, which rests on the tabletop. Her pale pink dress has long sleeves with ruffles at the cuffs, and buttons down the front of the skirt can be seen under the table. A lace bow or ruffles cascade down at her neck. Straw-colored hair peeks out under a black hat encircled with a wide band of lace. A short, stemmed glass sitting on the table in front of her holds a small, round piece of fruit surrounded by caramel-colored liquid. The white marble tabletop is streaked with gray. The burgundy, patterned banquette she sits on takes up the bottom half of the composition, and wood paneling around a slate-gray metal grate fills the top half. Loose brushstrokes are visible throughout. The artist signed the work as if he had written his name on the surface of the table, near the front edge to our left, "Manet."

Plum Brandy -- c. 1877 -- National gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Edouard Manet

A favourite picture of mine. I've probably posted it before, but no matter, because I never tire of it, and I hope that you don't either.

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Voici mon dessin terminé à l'instant pour le #NouvelAnchinois, #annéeducheval. 🥰🐎🔥
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Abribus V: Victor Hugo, M.Orts, 10 cm x 15 cm, Chinese Ink & Ink on recycled paper, September 2025.

Serie: Abribus
5/6

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Historical image of Gabrielle Renard

His model and nanny, Gabrielle Renard, became his essential hands. She prepared his palette, positioned his canvas, and adjusted his easel. Without her, his art would have ended. #FrenchArt #Painting

Feel the power of the sea! This evocative signed lithograph by Michel Martin. Moody, atmospheric, and full of character – a true gem for your collection.
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Fernand Léger (1881–1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker who pioneered "Tubism," a, distinctive form of Cubism characterized by tubular, mechanical forms and bold, primary colors. Influenced by modern industrial technology, his art celebrated the dynamism of urban life. His work evolved from early Cézanne-inspired paintings to a "mechanical" period, later becoming more figurative and populist. In his mature style, Fernand Léger worked a great deal with human forms, figures with flowing contours and with strong colours over the whole field. These dancers fly forward from the left and a draped piece of cloth on the right and the winding stalk of a rose the dancer on the left is holding in her hand contrast with the full surfaces of the dancers' skin. The keys? The keys are the starting point of the architectonic design on the right-hand side of the painting, contrasting in turn with the two triangular shapes. And finally, in contrast to the square and pointed shapes is a rounded, gently flowing "cloud frame" which completes the composition at the top and the bottom.

Les danseuses aux clés
(Dancers with Keys)
oil on canvas
1930
Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
France

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Two Tahitian women are seated on a pale sandy ground before horizontal bands of blue-black water, green land and dark blue sky with streaks of white clouds. The woman at left, shown in profile, has medium-brown skin and long black hair tied back with a yellow ribbon and a white flower tucked near her ear. She wears a sleeveless white top and a red pareu printed with large white leafs. Her posture is folded and inward, with one hand braced on the ground and her gaze lowered. The woman at right, also with medium-brown skin, sits cross-legged facing forward in a loose pink, long-sleeved missionary dress. Her dark hair is pulled back with a pink ribbon, and her hands gather thin yellow plant leaves in her lap. Between them lie small objects painted in simplified forms. French artist Paul Gauguin compresses space and flattens depth, using matte passages of pink, red, cream, green, and blue. The brushwork is broad and layered, giving the figures weight while keeping the setting quiet and still. The painting is central to Gauguin’s first Tahiti period (1891–1893) and shows the contrast between the left woman’s pareu and the right woman’s missionary-style dress, a visual marker of colonial change and cultural pressure in French Polynesia. The mood is not festive or theatrical. Instead, it feels paused, private, and psychologically distant. That stillness is part of the painting’s power. This painting should also be viewed critically because Gauguin’s Tahitian imagery is inseparable from colonial fantasy, exoticizing projection, and the unequal conditions under which he worked. The women are vividly present as individuals in the image, yet their names are not preserved, reflecting a broader archival pattern in colonial-era art. In 1891, Gauguin had left France seeking what he described as artistic and spiritual renewal, and he was developing the flattened color fields, strong contours, and symbolic atmosphere that shaped his Post-Impressionist and Synthetist legacy.

“Femmes de Tahiti (Tahitian Women on the Beach)” by Paul Gauguin (French) - Oil on canvas / 1891 - Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #PaulGauguin #Gauguin #MuseeDOrsay #Muséed’Orsay #PostImpressionism #arte #artText #FrenchArt #art #TahitianArt #FrenchArtist #blueskyArt #ColonialArtHistory

Abribus IV: Gare, M.Orts, 10 cm x 15 cm, Chinese Ink & Ink on recycled paper, September 2025.

Serie: Abribus
4/6

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Today, masterpieces like Renoir's 'Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette' hang in the Musée d'Orsay thanks to Caillebotte's foresight. The painter who documented Parisian streets ensured Impressionism's legacy would endure forever. #legacy #frenchart

Courbet turned art into a blood sport in 1866. adopting a polished, tactical scandal to force his way into the Salon. Loose hair and bare skin were his weapons against the rising threat of photos. A masterpiece of calculated submission.

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