The best antidote for someone who’s stuck in their ways is to move abroad. You’ll realize your habits aren’t part of your DNA and you’re more adaptable than you thought. I’ve had the pleasure…

I can’t remember the last time I started my day without my daily cup of coffee. I stumble out of bed every morning and drag my body to my coffee maker, brew myself a cup, and then, only then do I really feel alive enough to start my day. So deep is my love for […]

The French academic painter Hugues Merle gained acclaim during his lifetime for his idealised depictions of family life and of historical and religious subjects. He was often associated with his friend and rival, William-Adolphe Bouguereau; in fact, their shared dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, urged Bouguereau to add to his pictorial repertoire Merle's interpretation of familial love, which had defined his most successful Salon entries during the 1840s through the 1960s. Whether imaging modern-day Madonnas with children, Susanna at her bath, or, as here, Mary Magdelene, Merle favoured emotion-filled, often seductive, facial expressions and languid bodies to connote drama and pathos. Indeed, his Mary Magdelene emerges as the enraptured captive of Christ's love. [Heritage Auctions - Oil on canvas, 45.1 x 59.7 cm]

Gaston La Touche (1854–1913) French DINNER AT THE CASINO, c. 1906 Oil on canvas 39 X 37 ⅝ inches

The Singer in Pink (1895). Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931). Manet’s interest in scenes of contemporary life and his depiction of women influenced Forain’s style in painting and printmaking by...

Aurore Lephilipponnat is a French artist who incorporates Japanese Butoh dance into her charcoal drawings. Her visions often comprise of female or hybrid bodies who move gracefully across the page, suspended in various stages of life, death, and decay. In an interview with Artists of France, Lephilipponnat explains how Butoh is an art form capable...

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Claude Firmin (Avignon, February 18, 1864 - Avignon, December 8, 1944) was a French painter. [Palais Dorotheum, Vienna - Oil on canvas, 81 x 101 cm]

Auguste Toulmouche (1829–1890)

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