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🍋 Le Citron, ça pétille à Blois !
Pour l’été, l’escalier Denis-Papin se pare de zestes artistiques, en faisant écho au tableau « Le Citron » d’Édouard Manet, exceptionnellement exposé au Château royal de Blois jusqu’au 28 juillet 2025. 🎨
📷Profitez d’une promenade pleine de fraîcheur et de couleurs !

Plus d'informations : blois.fr/info/2025/05/escalier

#Blois #BloisChambord #BloisMaVille
#DenisPapin #stairs #art #citron #Manet #ArtDeRue #StreetArt

"Bazille's Studio," Frédéric Bazille, 1870.

Bazille (1841-1870) died only a few months after he painted this lovely scene, after enlisting in the Franco-Prussian War. His existing work is precious.

This is a view of a studio he shared with Pierre-Auguste Renoir. While Bazille painted the scene, the figure in the center with the palette was painted by Edouard Manet to be Bazille himself. The man in the hat looking at the canvas on the easel is Manet, while the man at the piano is Edmond Maitre, a friend of Bazille's. The other three are unknown; it's thought that two of them could be Renoir and Monet, but it's impossible to tell. Alfred Sisley and Emile Zola might also be included.

Above Maitre's head is a still life by Monet, and a small landscape by Renoir is just to the right of the window. Other paintings are Bazille's, that had been rejected by the 1866 Paris Salon. So here Bazille is thumbing his nose at the stodgy Salon establishment...

Of course, now Impressionism itself can seem old-fashioned and stodgy...what happens to the anti-establishment crowd when they become the Establishment? Hard to say...but at least we have this charming and inventive painting to study.

From the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Edouard Manet, The Railway, 1873

Symbolising bustle, change, movement and adventure, both the nanny and the little girl are on the other side, on the wrong side of the fence, away from that.

As each day passes I am more the nanny and less the girl.

When I learned about Édouard Manet's "Olympia," the analysis focused on the parallel's to Titian's "Venus of Urbino" and the shocking nature of portraying a sex worker as the reclining nude. That was about it.

Being about to talk about Laure, the model for the maid, and the social commentary Manet is making by including a black model in this role, makes for such a fuller discussion I'm able to present to students today.