A variety of pubs, bars and cafés from Degas, Manet, Meunier, Lesser Ury, Carpentier, Jean Béraud, Sava Šumanović and Malcolm Drummond.
Degas
In narrative, including Degas’ ‘Waiting’, as a sign of wind, as an arc of colour, or simply to tell the viewer that it’s raining.
Degas’ photos of women bathing, GĂ©rĂ´me supporting photography as a fine art, Pierre Bonnard’s snaps of Marthe, and the extreme realism of Ellen Altfest.
In the 19th century, literary stories changed with the coming of detective and mystery novels. In the latter half of the century, painters gained fame in problem pictures.
From tired seamstress to milliner, into the fashion house of Paquin, and onto the streets alongside the affluent of Paris at the turn of the century.
Originally the toilet, this is where ladies prepared themselves for the day. Paintings from Hogarth. Degas, Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard and others.
At the ballet with Degas,Sargent’s Spanish dancer, entertainment in North Africa, an Ionian dance, the Can-Can, Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils.
A cheap substitute for tapestries, they came of age in the 19th century when paper could be made in long rolls and colour printing had improved.
Laundresses who collect clothes and linen from homes, launder and press them, and return them for a pittance. Seamstresses working long hours with an uncertain future.
Fashionable hats and milliners by Georges Clairin, Edgar Degas, Jean BĂ©raud, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot and Henri Gervex.
The Eclectic Light Company 