An early view inside the Uffizi, a Baron who couldn’t stop collecting, views inside the Royal Academy and jury selection for the Salon, and much more in the Louvre.
Gervex
Country folk lured by the promise of material goods and wealth, fine clothes and smart carriages, who end up working in coal mines and struggling to stave off poverty.
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.
Paintings from cities like London, Paris and Oslo, by Ford Madox Brown, Jean-Louis Forain, Félicien Rops, Christian Krohg, and others.
Fashionable hats and milliners by Georges Clairin, Edgar Degas, Jean Béraud, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot and Henri Gervex.
Huge divans, closed wooden cabinets, and iron bedsteads. In love, marriage, adultery, problem pictures, and the erotic.
Bastien-Lepage, Regnault, Pelez, Debat-Ponsan, Buland, Dagnan-Bouveret, Gervex, and Friant: best in their class, and highly successful pupils.
View by many as the start of a slippery slope to prostitution, dressmaking demanded long hours of work in return for a pittance/
From 1875 on, paintings of surgical procedures, heroes of medical and surgical advances, and the new clinical look of hospitals.
Rejected from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition as ‘unsightly’, The Gross Clinic was hidden in an Army hospital. In 2006, it was almost sold for $68 million.
The Eclectic Light Company 