Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | The petit Savoyard eating in front of an entrance to a house, 1877

Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (January 7, 1852 - July 3, 1929), was one of the leading French artists🎨 of the Naturalist school.

He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil. Later he added his grandfather's name, Bouveret, to his own.

From 1869 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Cabanel🎨 and Jean-Léon Gérôme. In 1873 he opened his own studio with a fellow student Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois.

Berthe Morisot | "Ho peccato, ho sofferto, ho espiato"!

"Amo solo le novità estreme o le cose del passato!"

"Fissare qualcosa di ciò che passa…"

"Con mio grande stupore e felicità ho raccolto i più grandi elogi".

"Il ricordo è vero e imperituro, ciò che è sprofondato, che è cancellato, non valeva la pena di essere vissuto; dunque non c’è stato".

John Poppleton | Bodyscapes ‎painter

John Poppleton was born and raised in the suburbs of Sacramento, CA. He was introduced to photography during his junior year of high school in 1988.

He pursued all areas of photography very passionately as a hobby until becoming a professional portrait photographer in 1993, after several friends convinced him to photograph their weddings.

It has always been John’s goal to create something original and different but fantasy portraits were never part of the plan.

Charles Joshua Chaplin | Academic painter

Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891) was a French painter and engraver.

His father was British and his mother french, and he only became a naturalized Frenchman in 1886, although he worked in France all his life.

He was a pupil at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1840, and he regularly visited the studio of Michel-Martin Drolling, whose pupils included Paul Baudry, Jean-Jacques Henner and Jules Breton.

Grigory Gluckmann | The Ballet dancers

Russian-born American painter Gluckmann (Glickman) Grigory Efimovich / Глюкман (Гликман) Григорий Ефимович (1898-1973) was born in Vitebsk, Russia, and studied for three years at the Art Academy in Moscow.

Because of the Revolution, in 1920 escaped to Germany, where he continued his art studies, and then went on to Florence, where he spent a year studying and familiarizing himself with the masters of the Renaissance.

After his Italian sojourn, he settled in Paris in 1924 to work and to launch his professional career as an artist.

Helmo | Fashion Animals

French design team Helmo - Thomas Couderc and Clément Vauchez, put together a pretty crafty series called Bêtes de Mode using an anaglyph 3D technique.

Bêtes de mode - Fashion animals, is a series of 13 images created for the Galeries Lafayette in Paris.

The images of the animals in the red hue merged with images of beautiful people in the cyan hue, in a synchronous pose, make you almost want to put your 3D glasses on.

But really, it’s not necessary, because the design aesthetic is so striking and haunting, they are meant to be viewed as you see them now.

Léon Cogniet | Romantic painter

Léon Cogniet (1794-1880) was a French🎨 history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students.

He was born in Paris. His father was a painter and wallpaper designer.

In 1812, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-arts, where he studied with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.

Georges Maroniez | Marine / Genre painter

Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez (1865, Douai - 1933, Paris) was a French painter, specializing in landscapes with figures.

Education and first works

Maroniez was the son of an industrialist who owned a sugar refinery in Montigny-en-Ostrevent. He displayed artistic talent at an early age, but - although not discouraged - was expected to pursue a more professional career.

Accordingly, he studied law, and afterwards served as a magistrate in, successively, Boulogne-sur-Mer (1891), Avesnes-sur-Helpe (1894) and Cambrai (1897).

Malvina Hoffman | Figurative sculptor

One of America's foremost sculptors, Malvina Hoffman (1885-1966)🎨 studied with the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin🎨 from 1910 until his death in 1917 and is recognized by some as "America's Rodin🎨".

Hoffman is perhaps best known for her monumental bronze series, "The Races of Mankind", commissioned in 1930 by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.

Hoffman first won acclaim for her bronze sculpture of Russian dancers Anna Pavlova🎨 and Mikhail Mordkin and also studied under two other sculptors, Gutzon Borgium of Mount Rushmore fame and Herbert Adams.

Denis Chernov, 1978 | Figurative Pencil painter

Denis Chernov was born in Sambir, Lviv province, Ukraine. He lives and works in Kharkiv after graduating from Kharkiv Art College, in 1998, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (Chair of Graphic Art), in 2004.

He regularly participates in artistic exhibitions, both in Ukraine and abroad.

Most of Denis Chernov’s artworks are kept in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Italy, England, Spain, Greece, France, USA, Canada and Japan. Some works have been sold at 'Christie's.

Slava Korolenkov, 1958 | Impressionist painter

Вячеслав Короленков is an Russian painter, known for work in the Figurative Impressionist style.

Korolenkov was born in the small city of Tula, not far from Moscow.

Influenced by Russian artists such as impressionist Konstantin Korovin🎨 and Nicolai Fechin, Korolenkov maintains that his greatest teacher is every sunny day that gives him a chance to breathe, smile, and chat with family and friends.

Enric Serra i Auqué | Romantic painter

Enric Serra i Auqué (1859-1918) was born in Barcelona where he later attended art school.

Due to a scholarship, he was able to move to Rome in 1879 where he studied at the Accademia di San Luca.

Soon, Serra established himself as a painter in Rome, recorded first sales success and received several commissions for the Vatican.

In 1895 he opened a studio in Paris, which became a meeting point for young Spanish artists.

Myron Barlow | Genre / Figurative painter

Myron G. Barlow (1873-1937) was raised in Detroit, Michigan and remained deeply associated with that city even after he moved to France, where he lived for most of his life.

His artistic career began during his teen years, when formal art training at the Detroit Museum School and at the Chicago Art Institute.

He then traveled to Europe and enrolled in the Ecole des Beau-Arts, Paris in the atelier of Jean-Leon Gérome.

Thomas Ehretsmann, 1974 | Narrative painter

French painter🎨 and illustrator Thomas Ehretsmann was born in Mulhouse, France.

He completed his studies at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg in 1998 and has led a successful career in illustration for over a decade. Notably, his work has been featured in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Elle Magazine and various European and American books and journals.

In 2009, he spent several months in Norway studying with the internationally recognized painter, Odd Nerdrum🎨. He received a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators of New York in 2011, and a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators West in 2013.

His works have been exhibited at Gallery Brulee in Strasbourg and at Gallery l’Oeil du Prince in Paris.

Anna Razumovskaya | Romantic Figurative painter

Anna Razumovskaya /Анна Разумовская🎨 is a graduate of the Russian State University For Arts, where she was awarded🎨 the distinction of high-class artist in 1991. Subsequently, she studied art in Germany, Belgium and Holland.

With exhibitions in New York, Paris, Toronto, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Berlin and numerous works in private collections across the globe, she has become one of the most exciting and collectable artists on the contemporare scene.

Born at the height of the cold war, Anna was exposed to very different worlds, that of the austere communist regime alongside the sophistication and femininity of her fashion-conscious mother. She excelled at art school, and enjoyed the freedom of learning and perfecting her technique in a variety of different media.

Ulisse Caputo | Genre painter of the Belle Époque

Ulisse Caputo | An evening at the opera | Christie's

In the present painting "An evening at the opera" the viewer is placed directly in the stalls of the theatre, taking in the movement of the orchestra, the drama at the centre-stage, and the frisson of the swordfight in the upstage right, all under the backdrop of a clear crisp night sky.

The colourful scene is characterized by quick and rich brushstrokes, emphasising the movement of the depiction.

Music and theatre can be considered familiar passions as the artist’s father was a set designer and administrator of the Teatro Verdi in Salerno and this probably influenced the artist in his love for the subjects.

Ulisse Caputo | An evening at the opera | Christie's

Jakub Schikaneder | Impressionistic nocturnes

Jakub Schikaneder (1855-1924) came from the family of a German customs office clerk.

Despite the family's poor background, he was able to pursue his studies, thanks in part to his family's love of art; an ancestor was Urban Schikaneder, the elder brother of the librettist Emanuel Schikaneder.

After having completed his studies in Prague and Munich 1871-1879, Schikaneder, alongside Emanuel Krescenc Liška, was involved in the furnishing of the royal box in the National Theatre in Prague; however, this work was lost in a fire in 1881.

Émile Lecomte-Vernet | Orientalist painter

Émile Vernet-Lecomte, born Charles Émile Hippolyte Lecomte (1821-1900) was a French painter, best known for his Orientalist works.

He came from a family of illustrious painters.

His great-grandfather was Claude Joseph Vernet and his father was the battle painter, Hippolyte Lecomte; who was himself the son-in-law of Carle Vernet, and the nephew of Horace Vernet.

Odilon Redon (1840-1916) | Still Lifes

Odilon Redon🎨's work represent an exploration of his internal feelings and psyche.

He himself wanted to "place the visible at the service of the invisible"; thus, although his work seems filled with strange beings and grotesque dichotomies, his aim was to represent pictorially the ghosts of his own mind. Redon🎨 also describes his work as ambiguous and undefinable:

"My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined".

Odilon Redon | Symbolist / Colorist painter

Odilon Redon🎨 (born April 20, 1840, Bordeaux, France - died July 6, 1916, Paris) French🎨 Symbolist painter, lithographer and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines.

His prints explore haunted, fantastic, often macabre themes and foreshadowed the Surrealist🎨 and Dadaist movements.

His oils and pastels, chiefly still lifes with flowers, won him the admiration of Henri Matisse🎨 and other painters as an important colourist.