The Girl at the Gate by George Clausen – Mysterious Art Century
George Clausen (1852-1944), The Girl at the Gate, 1889, oil on canvas, 171.4 x 138.4 cm. Tate Britain| Mysterious Art Century
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Joan of Arc, the medieval teenaged martyr from the French province of Lorraine, gained new status as a patriotic symbol when France ceded part of the territory to the German Empire after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). Bastien-Lepage, a native of Lorraine, depicts the moment when Saints Michael, Margaret, and Catherine appear to the peasant girlContinue reading "Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage"| Mysterious Art Century
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“L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman),” also referred to as “The Reception,” belongs to a series of fifteen large paintings that James Tissot executed between 1883 and 1885. The series, entitled “La femme à Paris,” contains some of his most trenchant observations and comments on late nineteenth-century Parisian society. The political arena inhabited by this painting’s subject isContinue reading "L’Ambitieuse by James Tissot"| Mysterious Art Century
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George Clausen (1852-1944), The Girl at the Gate, 1889, oil on canvas, 171.4 x 138.4 cm. Tate Britain| Mysterious Art Century
The Brotherhood The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in John Millais’s parents’ house on Gower Street, London in 1848. At the first meeting, the painters John Everett Millais, Dan…| Mysterious Art Century
