Showing posts with label Pierre Auguste Cot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pierre Auguste Cot. Show all posts

Friday, July 31, 2020

Le Printemps by Pierre Auguste Cot

Le Printemps is one of the most popular painting by Pierre Auguste Cot, featuring two young lovers sitting upon a swing,

It was shown by Cot with astounding success at the Salon of 1873, and had been acquired by John Wolfe, at the sale of whose collection in 1882 it passed into the hands of David C. Lyall.
Le Printemps by Pierre Auguste Cot

Thursday, July 16, 2020

The Storm by Pierre Auguste Cot

The Storm by Pierre Auguste Cot has long been regarded, at least by Americans aware of its presence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as a symbol of late nineteenth-century French academicism.

Cots completed the painting ‘The Storm” in 1880 and was originally exhibited in “The Salon” in Paris.

The Storm is an elegant example of naturalism, and a blissfully romantic yet evasive reproduction of the stark sensuality that dare not speak its name in nineteenth-century French society.
The Storm by Pierre Auguste Cot

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