#gervex

[artschoolglasses]

Masked Ball at the Opera, Paris, Henri Gervex, 1886

[mote-historie]

Henri Gervex (French, 1852-1929), Young woman standing, back view, in front of a window (Jeune femme debout, vue de dos, devant une fenêtre).

Paris, musée d'Orsay, conservé au musée du Louvre.

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[detournementsmineurs]

“Une Soirée au Pré Catalan” d'Henri Gervex (1909) à l'exposition “Marcel Proust, un Roman Parisien” au Musée Carnavalet, février 2022.

[thewondermentofillustration]

Peder Severin Krøyer - Committee for the French Art Exhibition in Copenhagen, 1888, oil on canvas Left standing: Braquemond, Gervex, Roll, Besnard, Cazin Left seated: Fernand Cormon, Juste Lisch, Eugène Delaplanche, Léon Bonnat Right seated: Petit, Ballu, Dayot, Roty, Gautherin, Chapu, Mercié, P. Dubois, Louis Pasteur, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Félix-Joseph Barrias, Jules Chaplain, Alexandre Falguière Right standing: Carolus Durand, Charles Garnier, Carl Jacobsen, Klein, Antonin Proust, Maque, Laurits Tuxen, Peder Severin Krøyer

[des-roses-et-des-pivoines]

Rolla, Henri Gervex, 1878

[womeninbeds-blog]

Rolla, Henri Gervex (1878)

[mote-historie]

1877 Henri Gervex (French, 1852-1929), Cafe Scene in Paris, detail.

Gaslight illuminates this scene in a Paris Cafe, which includes the artist himself lighting a cigarette.

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Cafes provided an important meeting place for artists, writers, and intellectuals in the nineteenth-century city. News, gossip, and ideas were shared as drinks were poured and pipes, cigars, and cigarettes were smoked. Here the artist painted a group portrait of some of his friends in their neighborhood cafe; he represents himself as the man in the center lighting his pipe. (x)

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[mote-historie]

Henri Gervex, Yachting in the Archipelago. 1898.

Henri Gervex painted Yachting in the Archipelago in 1898, while a guest on board the magnificent yacht, Namouna, belonging to Gordon Bennett, the owner of the New York Herald and an international media entrepreneur. Bennett, who is probably depicted as the gentleman in white suit, leaning against the cabin in the posture of Captain of his vessel, moved frequently between New York and Paris. He occasionally commissioned Gervex to provide illustrations for the Herald and often included the artist among the fashionable European and American guests on the most current of his several renowned yachts. For Gervex, an artist entirely committed to painting the very real events and most fashionable details of his day, Yachting in the Archipelago represents a fascinating intersection between his personal and professional lives. (x)