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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Sewing indoors - Jean Édouard Vuillard 1868-1940

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) 1893 The Studio or The Suitor

Jean-Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) was a French painter best known for his unique & exquisite interior paintings, & for his association with the artist group Les Nabis, both of which blossomed in the 1890s. Vuillard's intimate interiors were inspired by the 60 years, he spent with his mother in a succession of apartments in Paris, watching her at work as a dressmaker. The son of a retired sea captain, Jean-Edouard Vuillard moved with his family to Paris at the age of 10. After winning a scholarship, he trained at the French Academy of Fine Arts, where he met Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). Vuillard's mother ran her dressmaking studio from home, giving her son ample opportunity to immerse himself in the colors, patterns, materials & shapes of her dress fabrics. He recorded scenes of industrious activity among the dressmakers.

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Dressmaking Studio I

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Dressmaking Studio II

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Les Couturières 1890

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) L'atelier de couture 1892

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Woman Mending 1891

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Interior (also known as Marie Leaning over Her Work) 1892-1893

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Madame Vuillard Cousant, 1895

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Stitch 1893

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)

Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) The Seamstress 1893

Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Madame Vuillard Sewing c 1905

Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Two Seamstresses in the Workroom 1893

Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Mrs Vuillard Sewing 1893

Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Tapestry or Embroiderers La Tapisserie ou Les Brodeuses. 1895. (Model reported to be Misia Sert Natanson)

Jean Edouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) The Dress with Foliage La robe à ramages. 1891

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Sewing indoors - Mary Cassatt 1844-1926

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). Francoise in Green Sewing

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). Woman Sewing 1913-14

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). Augusta Sewing Before a Window 1905

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). Lydia at a Tapestry Loom

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). Sewing Class

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). The Young Bride 1875

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) Sewing

Friday, April 3, 2015

Sewing indoors - 1700s

1747 John Greenwood (Artist in British Colonial America, 1727-1792 Detail

1749-52 John Wollaston 1733-1767 Portrait of a Woman

1773 John Singleton Copley (American artist, 1738-1815) Mr & Mrs Thomas Miffin (Sarah Morris)

1778 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs. Seymour Fort

1788 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827) Ruth Stanley (Mrs John Mix) Detail

1791 Gilbert Stuart (American artist, 1755-1828) Anna Dorothea Foster & Charlotte Anna

1792 Gilbert Stuart (American artist, 1755-1828) Catherine Lane Barker

1792 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mrs Richard Alsop

Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Sarah Tucker (with needlework)

Reuben Mouthrop (American artist, 1763-1814) Mrs. Eunecia Street Stebbins

1793 Gilbert Stuart (American artist, 1755-1828) Catherine Brass (Mrs Richard Yates)

Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mrs Ebenezer Porter (Lucy Patty Pierce Merwin) with lace

Francois DuParc (French painter, 1705-1788) Woman Knitting

Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (French painter, 1702–1766)

Philip Mercier (French painter, 1689- 1760)

Francois-Hubert Drouais (French painter, 1727-1775)

Jacques-Louis David (French painter, 1748-1825) Portrait of Madame Adélaide Pastoret, 1791-1792

Joshua Reynolds (English Rococo Era Painter, 1723-1792) Handwork

Ivan Petrovich Argunov (Russian painter, Иван Петрович Аргунов, 1727–1802) Countess Tolstoy 1768