Views from the inside of balconies looking out and down, from German Romanticism, through Morisot and Caillebotte, to Corinth and Pierre Bonnard.
Luce
Religious paintings of the parable of the Good Samaritan, and Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, and charitable saints, before all changed in the 19th century..
Paintings of the quais of Paris from Bonington in 1819, through Impressionism to the Divisionism of Signac and Maximilien Luce.
From the Dutch Golden Age onwards, they’ve become fashionable for a while. Examples from Whistler, Turner, Kuindzhi, van Gogh, and others.
Paul Cézanne led the way in Aix-en-Provence, followed rapidly by Renoir, Signac, Cross, Luce, van Rysselberghe, and Pierre Bonnard.
The humble beast of burden, carrying drunken kings, Mary and the infant Jesus, the Good Samaritan, Sancho Panza, and young lambs.
Storm in the Bay of Biscay, a deep fake of 1808, a dedication for a wedding present, the Trojan Horse, and remarkable modern narratives.
A nocturne by Luce, Hokusai-inspired waves by Lacomb the Nabi sculptor, Moret’s coastal views, and two portraits by Elizabeth Nourse.
Shackles of the night, in a well, as a rope ladder how Romeo meets Juliet, trussing up a robber, or hanging John Brown, the abolitionist.
By the start of the 20th century, he had abandoned Neo-Impressionist for Post-Impressionism, and continued painting well after the First World War.
