69 Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, The Ray, c.1727, oil on canvas,...

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TitleThe Ray

Creator nameChardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1728

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions114.5 × 146 cm

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065938

Accession numberINV. 3197

SubjectsCats in artRealism in artStill-life painting, FrenchPainting, French--18th century

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Chapter V: Greuze and Official Art

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Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris

IT has been one of the preoccupations of this book that our received picture of the Academy as a monolithic, exclusionary body has been largely a myth...

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Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.134-174

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00329.6

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Chapter subject tags:Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805Art criticism--France--History--18th centuryArt, French--18th century--ExhibitionsGenre painting, French--18th centuryHistory painting, French--18th centuryPainting, French--18th centuryChardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, 1699-1779Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721

6. Mlle V. . . . In the Costume of . . . : Painting and Exhibiting Victorine between 1862 and 1868

Carol Armstrong

Manet Manette

~Manet probably painted Victorine Meurent for the first time in 1862. The earliest painting of her, which he never exhibited, was arguably the only time he painted her as “herself” (fig. 63). Of the large-scale, full-length paintings in which she later figured, some represented her in modern...

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Carol Armstrong

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.135-172

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00080.009

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