Beauties in the Snow

This morning we awoke to a light dusting of early snow.

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Ethnography

David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1939

Julie Manet

Julie Manet, born this day in 1878, was the daughter of Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet’s brother Eugène. Of all the many portraits of her by members of the Impressionist circle I find this one, painted by Renoir in 1887, by far the most charming.

Untitled Painting

George Maciunas, c. 1950s

Three Paintings by John Cage

Aloïse

Aloïse Corbaz (28 June 1886 – 5 April 1964) was a governess at the court of Wilhelm II, where her obsessive crush on the Kaiser led to a diagonosis of schizophrenia. Committed for life to a mental hospital she began secretly to paint and write poetry there. In 1947 her art came to the attention of Jean Dubuffet, who ammassed a collection of her works that was eventually donated to the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne and recently formed part of a large exhibition there entitled Aloïse. Le Ricochet Solaire.

Three Paintings by Annibale Carracci

The Sleep of Venus, c. 1602

The Penitent Magdalen, c. 1598

Venus with Satyr and Cupids, c. 1588

Annibale Carracci
3 November 1560 – 15 July 1609

Tissot in Autumn

A Convalescent

The Letter

The Picnic

Autumn on the Thames

Tissot seems to have had a particular fondness for the form and autumn colour of horse chestnut leaves. Horse chestnuts being very common here along the Thames these paintings feel quite close to home.

Tissot by Degas

Portrait by Edgar Degas of his friend and artistic mentor James Tissot
c. 1867-68

October

James Jacques Joseph Tissot
15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902