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6. Smiling, singing figures gather around a balcony to play musical instruments,
the festive, carefree mood.
A parrot and a dog, gazing down from their perches, round out the merry group
… an allegory of Harmony
Gerard van Honthorst
Musical Group on a Balcony
Groupe musical sur un balcon
1622
Getty Center, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
7.
8. two 'majas' sitting behind the balustrade of a balcony,
look down upon the passers-by
and
two men standing inconspicuously in the shadows behind,
probably pimps or clients
(Majas were lower-class women in Spain, particularly its capital Madrid,
who dressed in elaborate local style, here in florid mantillas, for example.
They were favourite figures in Goya’s paintings.)
Goya's painting was the inspiration for Édouard Manet's work The Balcony
Francisco de Goya
Majas on a Balcony
Majas au balcón
1800-1812
Private collection
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10.
11. All the subjects were close acquaintances of the artist ...
the painting tells no story or anecdote;
the protagonists are frozen, as if isolated in an interior dream,
Manet was freeing himself from academic constraints, despite
the obvious reference to Goya's Majas at the Balcony
...
the green of the balustrade and shutters, the blue of the man's tie,
as well as the brutal contrast between the white dresses
and the darkness of the background, were perceived as provocation
...
it is not surprising then, that a painting which took such liberties with
tradition, convention and realism so shocked its early public
Édouard Manet
Le Balcon
The Balcony
1868-1869
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
17. Renè Magritte, inspired by the great French master,
creates his own version.
Magritte has represented the fashionable bourgeois,
protagonists of the 19th century, as they would have been in 1949:
literally as bodies in coffins.
René Magritte
Perspective II, Le Balcon de Manet
Perspective II: Manet’s Balcony
1950
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, MSK, Ghent
18.
19. Five women comfortably installed on a kind of stone balcony
are giving a concert …
Three singers are reading from sheet music while the two musicians
accompanying them improvise the melody, as was customary
at that time.
Red damask curtains have been theatrically drawn to reveal
the musicians.
The scene is depicted very realistically in sotto, i.e seen from below.
These artifices are designed to create a trompe-l'oeil opening above
a fireplace.
Gerrit van Honthorst
Le concert
Concert on a Balcony
1624
Musée du Louvre, Paris
20.
21.
22. one of King David’s court has been sent down to express regal interest
in the scantily-clad Bathsheba, to the wicked amusement of her maid ...
King David himself is leaning over the balustrade in the distance,
elevated as his position demands, looking down at us.
Jan Matsys, Jan Massys
David et Bethsabée
David and Bathsheba
1562
Musée du Louvre, Paris
23.
24.
25.
26.
27. we ascend to the heights of love, and of ecstasy,
the romantic and poignant moment in the early dawn on Juliet’s balcony,
when Romeo parts from his love for what will be the final time ...
(… the couple here alone and squeezed into a balcony smaller than a single bed)
Ford Madox Brown
Romeo and Juliet
Roméo et Juliette
1869-1870
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
28.
29.
30. on a balcony in a relaxed, graceful pose, dressed in the low-cut
and elaborately decorated costume popular in late eighteen-century …
one of the daughters of Louis XV with her son;
the shadows on her face and on the wall in back of her may symbolize death,
in fact she died of a smallpox at the age thirty-two
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Louise-Elisabeth de France, duchesse de Parme
Portrait of Elisabeth of France, Duchess of Parma
1788
Château de Versailles, Versailles
31.
32.
33. fine clothes, the pearl necklace,
the chopines, or platform clogs ...
bored wives of patrician family Torella amid a menagerie of peacock,
doves and two dogs, staring into the blank distance
Vittore Carpaccio
Two Venetian Ladies
Deux Dames vénitiennes
1490
Museo Correr, Venice
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35.
36. the most impressive of Ciseri's religious works …
the moment when Pontius Pilate, leaning forward from
the balcony of a palace toward the crowd below him,
offers up both Christ and Barabbas for sentencing
Antonio Ciseri
Ecce Homo
1891
Galleria dell'Arte Moderna, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
37.
38.
39. a distant landscape ...
a young woman sat in front of a balcony
and
a little Unicorn
… the unicorn represents in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
a symbol of purity and grace, which could be captured only by a virgin
Raphael
Young Woman with Unicorn
La Dame à la licorne
1505
Galleria Borghese, Rome
40.
41. a rolling wooded countryside of central Germany ...
on the balcony of a castellated mansion a young woman dressed in black
sits contemplating the view
Carl Gustav Carus
Woman on the Balcony
Femme sur le balcon
1824
Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden
42.
43.
44.
45. painted from the artist’s home on the rue Franklin in Passy,
an affluent suburb of Paris ...
a fashionably dressed woman and a child stand on a balcony
overlooking a panoramic vista of the city
the green park of the Trocadéro, the river Seine
and the wide Champ de Mars spread before the skyline of the city,
which is punctuated by the golden dome of the Hôtel des Invalides
glowing in the distance
Berthe Morisot
Woman and child on a balcony
Femme et enfant au balcon
1871-1872
Ittleson Foundation, New York City
46.
47.
48. the bright exterior with its pale buildings and trees,
looking out over an urban scene …
Caillebotte’s younger brother René on a balcony,
standing in front of a balustraded window
in the family apartment on the rue de Miromesnil in Paris
Gustave Caillebotte
Young Man at His Window
Jeune homme à la fenêtre
1875
Private collection
49.
50.
51. above the foliage rises the buildings of Boulevard Haussmann
at the intersection of Rue La Fayette
a man in a suit and top hat, on his elegant wrought iron balcony,
bends down to look at the bustling sidewalks
Gustave Caillebotte
A Balcony, Boulevard Haussmann
Un balcon
1880
Private Collection, collection particulière
52.
53.
54. the view from a balcony of the Chevillon Hotel at Grez-sur-Loing,
a village near Fontainebleau which became immensely popular
with Nordic artists in the late nineteenth century ...
Christian Krohg
Portrait of the Swedish Painter Karl Nordström
Portrait du peintre suédois Karl Nordström
1882
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
55.
56.
57.
58. a city viewed from a balcony,
a half-open book
and
a distant gaze towards the bright exterior
Hans Heyerdahl
At the Window
À la fenêtre
1881
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
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60.
61.
62. in a rented apartment at Le Cannet, the town which the artist’s
wife Marthe is seen surveying from the balcony ...
Bonnard unites interior and exterior in the strong sunlight
of the South of France
Pierre Bonnard
La Fenêtre
The Window
1925
The Tate Gallery, London
63.
64.
65. a round table,
a tea tray,
one dachshund
...
out through the open French door and the balcony
our gaze is led to the palms and town of Le Cannet beyond
Pierre Bonnard
La porte-fenêtre avec chien
The French Windows with Dog
1927
Private collection
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The Balcony in paintings
La balcon dans la peinture
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