Saturday, August 15, 2015

Rouen's Musee des Beaux-Arts

It's another fine metropolitan museum, heavy, as one might expect, on Impressionism, but with plenty of other great stuff.
Grand old building
















A whole room of Hubert Robert
















Ingres' portrait of Madame Aymon




















David's portrait of his jailer [geolier]




















You know what by you know who




















A Sisley Seine landscape
















Jardin des Tuileries by Pissarro
















Monet Seine scene
















Renoir Chrysanthemums




















Monet's Rue St. Denis, Fete du 30 Juin 1878




















Another Monet Seine




















Monet before he was Monet; still-life, 1861




















Delacroix self-portrait




















How About Them Apples, Rene Sance, 1527




















The Monkey Painter




















Never miss a Poussin: l'Orage
















The Whale and Jonah, Louis Brandin
















Obligatory Rubens, Adoration of the Bergers




















Caravaggio's Flagellation (2)
















Ribera's Zacharie




















Velasquez's Democritus




















Jan Steen's The Proposition; hmmm...




















Gerard David's Virgin among Virgins
















Even a Della Robbia




















"Italian, 2nd half of 15th century"; not a great Botticelli forgery?
















Delacroix's Justice of Trajan




















Luminais' Les Enerves de Jumieges; it's complicated















1 comment:

Tawana said...

I think that the apple seller was advertising more than just apples.