In peinture à l’essence, the drying oil binder is removed from oil paint, and the remaining pigment is diluted with turpentine. This creates a fragile paint layer that is ephemeral.
Vuillard
Ancient paint made using glue as a binder loses chromatic intensity as it dries, fades readily over time, and forms a fragile paint layer. But it has been popular at times.
The sound of music from Vermeer, Menzel, James Tissot, Hanna Pauli, Edouard Vuillard and others, from palaces to the homes of the middle class.
More secular stories from Belgian coal mines, the Kalevala, Nabi public gardens, family life, to the 12 panels of the Ghent Altarpiece and Japanese woodblock prints.
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.
Paintings by Gustave Courbet, Paul Signac, Marie Bracquemond, Vincent van Gogh, LA Ring, Carl Larsson, Maurice Denis, William McGregor Paxton, Édouard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard.
Paintings of the Trojan Horse by Lovis Corinth, Vuillard’s lover and her husband, sea eagles chasing an eider duck, and George Bellows’ boxing match.
The forgotten French Impressionist Félix Cals, Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, and two former Nabis, Félix Vallotton and Édouard Vuillard also painted this coastal town.
More paintings of music, from the Aesthetic watercolour of Marie Spartali Stillman to folk dance, and Vuillard’s friends playing in his apartment.
Paintings by Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Dagnan-Bouveret, LA Ring, and others all completed a century ago.
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