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L'Art en France

image of Four Dancers   image of Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son   image of Self-Portrait

            Degas, Four Dancers                      Monet, Woman with a Parasol         Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait

                - Madame Monet and Her Son

 

(Click on pictures for more information from The National Gallery of Art)

General sites of interest

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19th Century art: Scroll down to find information on realism, romanticism, impressionism, as well as individual artists

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20th Century art: Scroll down to art nouveau, fauvism, and much more

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Impressionism: What the painters say ... Then click on the galleries for pictures

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Online guided tour through impressionism

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Online version of the first impressionist exhibition (1874). Includes scans of the show catalog and comments by critics

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The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas: You can search this online exhibit by artist

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The Biography Resource Center: A great place to start! Search by name (passwords available at the circ desk)

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Webmuseum, Paris: Use the index to find a brief biography of your artist, as well as examples of his/her work

 

Artists (in alphabetical order)

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Louis-Leopold Boilly (brief biographical notes and works

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Giovanni Boldini (biographical notes and works of art)

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Pierre Bonnard from the Met

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François Boucher; biography and work from the Met

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Eugène Boudin (brief biographical notes); see his work here

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William Bouguereau (brief biographical notes and works of art)

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Mary Stevenson Cassatt from the Met

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Paul Cézanne; more on Cézanne; scroll down for some of Cézanne's works here

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Pierre Puvis Chavannes from Answers.com

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Camille Claudel; and notes from the Rodin Museum

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot from the Met

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Gustave Courbet from the Met

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Charles-François Daubigny from the Met

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Honoré-Victorin Daumier from the Met

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Jacques-Louis David from the Met

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Edgar Degas; more on Degas; see some of his work at the National Gallery of Art

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Jean Dubuffet Foundation; brief biography and several works from the Tate Collection

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Niki de Saint-Phalle (her official site); more about The Tarot Garden

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (biography, paintings, posters, etc.); more from the National Gallery of Art

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Jean-Louis André-Théodore Gericault from the Met

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard; see his works here

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Paul Gauguin from the Met

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Jean-Léon Gérôme from the Met

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Claude Lorrain; see his works here

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René Magritte; Magritte's exhibition at SFOMA; more on Magritte

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Édouard Manet; Tour: Manet and his Influence (from the National Gallery of Art)

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Henri Matisse; and Henri Matisse and the Fauves (from the National Gallery of Art)

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Jean-François Millet from the Met

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Claude Monet; and more on Monet from the Met

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Berthe Morisot; more works from the National Gallery of Art

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Camille Pissarro; see some of Pissarro's works at the National Gallery of Art

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir; see some of Renoir's works here

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Auguste Rodin; Musée Rodin; and biography and works from the National Gallery of Art

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Henri Rousseau; see his work at the National Gallery of Art

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John Singer Sargent from the Met

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Georges Seurat; and more on Seurat from the Met

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Jacques Joseph Tissot; see his works here

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Constant Troyon life and work

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Vincent Van Gogh; visit the Vincent Van Gogh Gallery

 

Cite your sources!

Get quick and easy MLA examples at MLA Citation Style (scroll down for the type of source you are using); or click on Citation Machine (also available from the library homepage)

 

 

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