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Description: New Fountain on the Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris

TitleNew Fountain on the Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris

Creator nameThorigny, Félix

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Object typePrint

LocationFrom "Le Monde Illustrée" 4, 175 (August 18, 1860), p. 109

SubjectsArchitecture--France--Paris--History--19th centuryBridges in artStreets--France--Paris

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Chapter 8: Looking Through, Across, and Up The Architectural Aesthetics of the Paris Street

David Van Zanten

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

Until recently, the administration overseeing the street lines of Paris allowed builders—as long as they respected the laws of building height—the liberty of placing balconies, cornices and entablatures as they saw fit. . . .

Author

David Van Zanten

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.153-164

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00356.14

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23663&redirecttoanchor=101556

Chapter subject tags:Clothing and dress--France--History--19th centuryImpressionism (Art)--FranceStreets--France--ParisArchitecture--France--Paris--History--19th centuryHaussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891

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Design for a monumental lighthouse for Paris

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameBourdais, Jules

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1881

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsWatercolor, Pencil on tracing paper

Dimensions23 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/projet-de-phare-monumental-pour-paris-elevation-56835

Accession numberRF 37306, Recto, RF 37306

Design for a monumental lighthouse for...

Design for a monumental lighthouse for Paris

Port-en-Bessin, The Bridge and the Quays

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameSeurat, Georges

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1888

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions26 × 32 3/4 in. (66 × 83.2 cm)

LocationMinneapolis Institute of Arts

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1272/port-en-bessin-georges-seurat

Accession number55.38

Port-en-Bessin, The Bridge and the Quays

Diarama of an Alpine Scene

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameDaguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

LocationHarry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Diarama of an Alpine Scene

Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme à sa fenêtre)

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameCaillebotte, Gustave

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1876

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions46 × 32 1/4 in. (117 × 82 cm)

LocationJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/10A2Y1

Accession number2021.67

Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme...

Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme à sa fenêtre)

Boulevard du Temple, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameDaguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1838

Object typePhotograph

LocationBayerisches Nationalmuseum

Boulevard du Temple, detail

Photograph of an interior basin looking out toward the jetties, Port-en-Bessin

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator rolePhotographer

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsPhotograph

Photograph of an interior basin looking...

Photograph of an interior basin looking out toward the jetties, Port-en-Bessin

View through a Balcony Railing

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameSeurat, Georges

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1883–1884

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsConté crayon

Dimensions12 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.

View through a Balcony Railing

Eiffel Tower

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameSeurat, Georges

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions9 1/2 × 6 in. (24.1 × 15.2 cm)

LocationThe Fine Arts Museum of San Franciso

https://art.famsf.org/georges-seurat/eiffel-tower-197948

Accession number1979.48

Eiffel Tower

Iron lighthouse design by Eiffel and Co.

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Object typePrint

LocationBibliothèque de l'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées

Iron lighthouse design by Eiffel and Co.

Panorama Rotunda in the Place d’Austerlitz, Paris

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1882

Object typeDrawing

LocationBibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Panorama Rotunda in the Place...

Panorama Rotunda in the Place d’Austerlitz, Paris

House Painter

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameSeurat, Georges

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1883–1884

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsConté crayon on paper

Dimensions12 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (31.8 × 24.9 cm)

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

House Painter

Aerial view of Port-en-Bessin post-World War II

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator rolePhotographer

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsPhotograph

Aerial view of Port-en-Bessin post-World...

Aerial view of Port-en-Bessin post-World War II

Panorama of Constantinople by Jules-Arsène Garnier

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameNielson, C.V.

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1882

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

LocationThe Royal Library, Copenhagen

Panorama of Constantinople by...

Panorama of Constantinople by Jules-Arsène Garnier

Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme à sa fenêtre), detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameCaillebotte, Gustave

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1876

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/10525Y

Accession number2021.67

Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme...

The Man at the Window, detail

Gare Saint-Lazare

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameMonet, Claude

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions75.5 × 104 cm

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/la-gare-saint-lazare-10897

Accession numberRF 2775, INV 363

Gare Saint-Lazare

Photograph of the semaphore of Port-en-Bessin

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1908

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsPhotograph

Photograph of the semaphore of...

Photograph of the semaphore of Port-en-Bessin

Photograph of the entrance to the interior basins, looking west, Porten-Bessin

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator rolePhotographer

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsPhotograph

Photograph of the entrance to the...

Photograph of the entrance to the interior basins, looking west, Porten-Bessin

Apartment house with ground-floor shop project. Exterior perspective

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 06

Creator nameViollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1872

Object typeArchitecture

LocationEntretiens sur l'architecture, vol. 2, 1872

Apartment house with ground-floor shop...

Apartment house with ground-floor shop project. Exterior perspective

Paris, A Rainy Day

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameCaillebotte, Gustave

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions212.2 × 276.2 cm (83 1/2 × 108 3/4 in.)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/20684

Accession number1964.336

Paris, A Rainy Day

The House Painters

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameCaillebotte, Gustave

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions87 × 116 cm

LocationPrivate collection

The House Painters

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