Saturday 11 January 2020

Great News For Art Lovers,


100,000 digital copies of its artworks,




from the Paris Musées were added  to the public domain, making them free and unrestricted for the public to download and use, the collection contains work from artists, such as Gustave Courbet, Victor Hugo, and Rembrandt, that are housed at 14 museums in Paris like the Musée d’Art Moderne, Petit Palais, and even the catacombs, each file contains the high-resolution image, a description about the piece, and the location of the original work, in addition to an exhibition history and citation tips, just some of the thousands of images, above “Setting Sun on the Seine at Lavacourt” by Claude Monet (1880), oil on canvas, part of the collection at Petit Palais, Paris,

 “Portrait of Juliette Courbet” by Gustave Courbet (1844), oil on canvas, part of the collection at Petit Palais,

 Portrait of Ambroise Vollard” by Paul Cézanne (1899), oil on canvas, part of the collection at Petit Palais, Paris,

 “Julia Jackson from the front ‘Stella” by Julia Margaret Cameron (1867), photograph printed on albumen paper, part of the collection at Maison de Victor Hugo,

Portrait of Mr. Victor Hugo” by Léon Bonnat (1879), oil on canvas, part of the collection at Maison de Victor Hugo, the site also offers virtual exhibitions, with a project centered on the collections at Maison de Victor Hugo currently on view, what a treat not only for this weekend but at anytime in the future.


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