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    The Virgin with a lily (French: Vierge au lys) is a marble sculpture on a pedestal executed in 1878 by the French sculptor Eugène Delaplanche. The statue...
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    The Virgin of the Lilies (French: La Vierge au lys), also known as The Madonna of the Lilies, is an 1899 oil painting by the French artist William-Adolphe...
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    The title Virgin (Latin: Virgo, Ancient Greek: Παρθένος) is an honorific bestowed on female saints and blesseds, primarily used in the Eastern Orthodox...
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    The Angelus (painting) (category Articles with short description)
    in Barbizon, with a view of the church tower of Chailly-en-Bière. At their feet is a small basket of potatoes, and around them a cart and a pitchfork. Various...
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    Fleur-de-lis (redirect from Flower of lily)
    symbolic", especially in French heraldry. The Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph are among saints often depicted with a lily. Some modern usage of the fleur-de-lis...
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    L'Origine du monde (category Articles with short description)
    is a close-up view of the vulva and abdomen of a naked woman, lying on a bed with legs spread. Art historians have speculated for years that Courbet's model...
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    The Gleaners (category Articles with short description)
    them, it was a reminder that French society was built upon the labor of the working masses, and landowners linked this working class with the growing movement...
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    Dante and Virgil (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
    French) Pierre Daix, Pour une histoire culturelle de l'art moderne: de David à Cézanne, Odile Jacob, 1998 (ISBN 978-2-7381-0559-2) Media related to Dante...
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    Van Gogh self-portrait (1889) (category Articles with short description)
    Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh painted a self-portrait in oil on canvas in September 1889. The work, which may have been Van Gogh's...
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    L'Absinthe (category Articles with short description)
    formally in fashionable dress and hat, stares vacantly downward. A glass filled with absinthe is on the table in front of her. The models used in the...
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    The Cradle (Morisot) (category Articles with short description)
    love. This canvas, together with others like the one Claude Monet made of his son, Jean Monet at his Cradle (1867), attempts a new representation of childhood...
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    Musée d'Orsay (category Articles with short description)
    Effect, Series of The Poplars, Rouen Cathedral. Harmony in Blue, Blue Water Lilies, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, Haystacks, The Magpie, Women in the Garden Gustave...
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    Lilium (redirect from Lily)
    true lily, including water lily, fire lily, lily of the Nile, calla lily, trout lily, kaffir lily, cobra lily, lily of the valley, daylily, ginger lily, Amazon...
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    William-Adolphe Bouguereau (category Articles with short description)
    (1890) A Little Coaxing (1890) The Invasion (1892) Daisies (1894) The Shepherdess (1895) Inspiration (1898) La Vierge au lys (The Virgin of the Lilies) (1899)...
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    Bedroom in Arles (category Articles with short description)
    Bedroom in Arles (French: La Chambre à Arles; Dutch: Slaapkamer te Arles) is the title given to three similar paintings by 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist...
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    Whistler's Mother (category Articles with short description)
    described as an American icon and a Victorian Mona Lisa. Anna McNeill Whistler posed for the painting while living in London with her son at 96 Cheyne Walk,...
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    Portrait of Dr. Gachet (category Articles with short description)
    Vincent van Gogh. It depicts Dr. Paul Gachet, a homeopathic doctor and artist with whom van Gogh resided following a spell in an asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence...
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    The Card Players (category Articles with short description)
    game at hand. Cézanne adapted a motif from 17th-century Dutch and French genre painting which often depicted card games with rowdy, drunken gamblers in taverns...
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    Starry Night Over the Rhône (category Articles with short description)
    with the stars portrayed as the Plough in Ursa Major would not be visible in that direction. Van Gogh announced and described this composition in a letter...
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    Bal du moulin de la Galette (category Articles with short description)
    1986. Renoir painted a smaller version of the picture (78 × 114 cm) with the same title. The painting is now believed to be in a private collection in...
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    The Romans in their Decadence (category Articles with short description)
    maxims and mottos, classical and medieval, including law terms and phrases : with a selection of Greek quotations. London: Bell & Daldy, p. 296. “Musée d’Orsay:...
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    The Birth of Venus (Cabanel) (category Articles with short description)
    Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It was painted in 1863, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A second and smaller...
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    Le Lit (Toulouse-Lautrec) (category Articles with short description)
    couples. It depicts two women in a bed, gazing at each other. The white sheets of the bed contrast with a red bedspread and with the headboard and wall behind...
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    In Christian art, a Madonna (Italian: [maˈdɔnna]) is a religious depiction of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a singular form or sometimes accompanied by the...
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    Olympia (Manet) (category Articles with short description)
    details identifying her as a demi-mondaine, or courtesan. These include the fact that the name "Olympia" was associated with prostitutes in 1860s Paris...
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    The Artist's Garden at Giverny (French: Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny) is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet done in 1900, now in the Musée...
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    The Enigma (Doré) (category Articles with short description)
    painting surprises with its uniform and almost monochrome appearance, which underlines an atmosphere of desolation and death, with corpses on a battlefield and...
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    Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (category Articles with short description)
    March 2025. Korotkin, Joyce. "Herman Braun-Vega". NY ARTS. 4 (8). "L'art à Malescasse - Artistes, oeuvres d'art et designers du Château Malescasse"....
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    The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau) (category Articles with short description)
    Roman ideal of the female form and beauty, on par with Venus de Milo. For Bouguereau, it is considered a tour de force. The canvas stands at just over 300...
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    Les raboteurs de parquet (category Articles with short description)
    some of his other works, including a second, different version of Raboteurs from 1876, and his earlier work Jeune homme à sa fenêtre (Young Man at His Window)...
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