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making it less evident that Degas juxtaposed the sculpture and pastels as criminal theater

A profound appreciation for the paintings of Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer unites these three people—and many others.
“I suffered from a heavy depression,� he says. “The arts—theater, opera,

Fascination with the life and times of William Shakespeare abounded in the Victorian world, especially in London, where American artist Edwin Austin Abbey settled permanently in 1883. The Bard’s writings provided lifelong inspiration for Abbey:
His approach also evokes the pictorialist fashion in late Victorian theater, which

The impressionist style developed as a method to render more accurately the appearance of the natural world, and was principally a technique for landscape painting. Corot, whose career began in the late 1820s when the academic tradition of landscape painting was being revived, was one of the most prolific and influential exponents of the genre.
Corot’s Salon Paintings: Sources from French Classicism to Contemporary Theater Design

Jean Antoine Watteau came from a modest family in the Flemish city of Valenciennes, which had been annexed by France in 1678. He is said to have spent his formative years training under either the religious painter Jacques Albert Gérin (c.
degree of the satirical whimsy that characterized his own specialized depictions of theater

figures in theatrical costume attest to Jean Antoine Watteau’s interest in the theater

Manet came from a well–to–do family, and this painting provides a glimpse of the sophisticated Parisian world he loved. He was uncomfortable in the countryside, preferring instead the finery of the city.
and women, all of them with pale skin and most of them wearing black, stand in a theater

Nicolas Lancret was one of Antoine Watteau’s most talented followers and helped to disseminate the taste for fête-galante subjects in the eighteenth century. On the far left musicians are hidden amidst the trees, while across the canvas from left to right, arranged on an exaggerated S curve, stylishly dressed spectators have assembled in intimate groups to watch a couple perform a pas de deux.
composition with a magical quality where the idea of nature and the fantasy of the theater

the many vices and criminal tendencies long attached to the lowest classes and theater

Jan Steen’s paintings encompass a wide range of moods and subjects, from intimate scenes of a family saying grace before a meal to festive village celebrations, yet all of his paintings elicit a warm reaction to the lives of ordinary people. All five senses are represented in this work in which two young musicians play for a dancing couple while other people in the vine-covered arbor flirt, eat, drink, or smoke, and children amuse themselves with their toys.
which are marked by a sophisticated use of contemporary literature and popular theater