Crowds in the cities of Paris, Berlin with its new electric trams, and the rush hour in New York City. People, horse cabs, trams and early cars everywhere.
Luce
With Frits Thaulow in Norway, van Gogh in Arles, the construction of what is now the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and what can happen a railway carriage.
From 1880 workers’ strikes brought violence and strife to industrial regions throughout Europe, in the struggle for rights and justice. Shown here in contemporary paintings.
Paintings by Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, and Pierre Bonnard showing fishing boats, trees and bathers near this smalll fishing village on the Mediterranean coast.
Meunier’s paintings of the Borinage in Belgium, Breitner’s construction in Amsterdam in the late 19th century, and Maximilen Luce’s of Paris in the early 20th century.
Iron and steel mills and foundries, a printing shop, a lead mine still employing children, and spinners – all relentlessly demanding, without lighter work.
Crowded apartments in Montmartre, the Lower East Side in New York City, smoke in Charleroi and Dortmund, workers’ cottages, and more smoke.
A grand castle kitchen, the element fire, Vermeer’s milkmaid, a witch’s kitchen for Faust, a rotund cardinal tasting the sauce, and in a humble apartment in London.
One of the most private areas in a house or apartment, shown here by Degas, Maximilien Luce, Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Eric Ravilious and others.
First popular in the Dutch Golden Age, paintings of interiors enjoyed success during the 19th century, when they were favourites of the avant garde.
The Eclectic Light Company 