This is such a striking and happy painting. This artist captured the joy, the emotions! The laughter, the sweet child, the laughing women – all fabulous. Add in a bit of the unexpected such as a bird on the table and what a painting! Now, who painted this? #doyouknow

If you’re sure you want to check for the answer – see below! (So cool that this artist taught other artists, there is a name you will know among the list)!

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About the Artwork (from dia.org)

Title: Merrymakers

Artwork Date: 1870

Artist: Carolus-Duran

Life Dates: 1837-1917

Nationality:  French

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions – Unframed: 35 1/2 × 55 inches Framed: 56 5/8 × 75 1/4 × 7 1/4 inches

Classification: Paintings

Department: European Modern Art to 1970

Credit: Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

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🎨There is a great description of this painting HERE, on artistry.co – This is what I love to know, a little about the painting. Fabulous!

Read a blip about Carol’s-Duran, from the Smithsonian (americanart.si.edu):

Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran studied art through a series of apprenticeships, but his paintings were also greatly shaped by time spent copying the Old Masters in the Louvre. He spent most of the 1860s in Italy and Spain, where he was influenced by the realistic and often somber portraits by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. After his return to Paris, Carolus-Duran opened a studio where he taught many aspiring artists, among them the American painter John Singer Sargent. Carolus-Duran was a founding member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (The National Society of Fine Arts), which broke with the more traditional government-run Salon system, and was also the director of the prestigious Académie de France in Rome.

IMAGE taken at Detroit Institute of Art

IMAGES ARE NOT FOR REPRODUCTION, THEY ARE PROPERTY OF THE ARTIST/ART INSTITUTE.

🖼️ Until next time!