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Provenance It was rediscovered in a private house in Kölblöd, Bavaria, Germany in 1949 after being bought on the black market or seized by Hermann Brandl. It was returned to France on 3 June that year and assigned to the Louvre two years later by the Office des Biens et Intérêts Privés. It was then stolen from the Louvre in 1978 but recovered the following year, before being stolen again ...
The " Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne " (English title: Poem on the Lisbon Disaster) is a poem in French composed by Voltaire as a response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. It is widely regarded as an introduction to Voltaire's 1759 acclaimed novel Candide and his view on the problem of evil. The 180-line poem was composed in December 1755 ...
The Orchestra at the Opera (c. 1870) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Edgar Degas (1834–1917).. The musicians depicted in the orchestra pit of the Salle Le Peletier the home of the Paris Opera (from 1821 until it burnt down in 1873) are mostly portraits of friends of Degas, foremost among them pictorially the bassoonist and composer Désiré Dihau (1838–1909), who ...
Three Women with Parasols ( French: Trois femmes aux ombrelles ), also known as The Three Graces, is an 1880 oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Marie Bracquemond. The painting depicts three women wearing the then fashionable style of ruffled dresses with high bodices. [1] The woman in the middle holds a fan in the popular style of Japonisme.
The Oreads ( French: Les Oréades) is an oil painting by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painted in 1902. Its dimensions are 236 × 182 cm. [citation needed] In 2009 the descendants of the artist donated the artwork to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where it is now exhibited. [1]
Year. 1847. Dimensions. 56.5 cm × 180 cm (22.2 in × 71 in) Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Woman Bitten by a Serpent (French: Femme piquée par un serpent) is an 1847 marble sculpture by Auguste Clésinger (1814–1883), now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It depicts a violently contorted nude among a bed of flowers, with a small snake ...
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (English: Luncheon on the Grass) is an 1865–1866 oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet, produced in response to the 1863 work of the same title by Édouard Manet. It remains unfinished, but two large fragments (central and left panels) are now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, [1] [2] whilst a smaller 1866 version is ...
Sonophoresis. Sonophoresis also known as phonophoresis, is a method that utilizes ultrasound to enhance the delivery of topical medications through the stratum corneum, to the epidermis and dermis. Sonophoresis allows for the enhancement of the permeability of the skin along with other modalities, such as iontophoresis, to deliver drugs with ...
Electrophoresis is the basis for analytical techniques used in biochemistry for separating particles, molecules, or ions by size, charge, or binding affinity. [10] In principle, electrophoresis is used in laboratories to separate macromolecules based on charge. [11] The technique normally applies a negative charge so proteins move towards a ...
Poteaux-sur-sol is a part of American historic carpentry but is known by its French name in North America, as it was used by French and French-Canadian people in the region historically known as New France. Besides its appearance in French colonial architecture, it was also used in the 19th century by Ukrainian peasants living on the open ...