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"Sculpture on top of the former Corn Exchange in Aix-en-Provence Jean-Pancrace Chastel (1726-1793) was a French sculptor.Le musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, Musées et monuments de France, 2007, p. 84 André Hallays, The Spell of Provence, L.C. Page & Company, 1923, p. 90 Michel Racine, Ernest J.-P. Boursier-Mougenot, Françoise Binet, The gardens of Provence and the French Riviera, MIT Press, 1987, p. 65 Biography Early life He was born in Avignon in 1726 and moved to Aix-en-Provence as a young boy. Career Sculpture of a lion He was the first professor to teach at the School of Sculpture in Aix-en-Provence, founded in 1774.Notice sur la bibliothèque d'Aix, dite de Méjanes: précédée d'un Essai sur l'histoire littéraire de cette ville, sur ses anciennes bibliothèques publiques, sur ses monuments, etc., Firmin Didot frères, 1831, p. 289 He sculpted three fountains in Aix-en- Provence: Mule-Noir, Prêcheurs (1748) and Tanneurs (1761).Aix-en-Provence website: Place PrêcheursDominique Massounie, Les monuments de l'eau: aqueducs, châteaux d'eau et fontaines dans la France urbaine, du règne de Louis XIV à la révolution, Monum Ed. du patrimoine, 2009 He also sculpted the top of the former Corn Exchange. Some of his sculptures can be found in the Musée Granet.Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Les 100 plus beaux musées de France 2012 , Petit Futé, 2012, p. 164 Alexandre Maral, Sculptures: la galerie du Musée Granet, Somogy, 2003, p. 54 Personal life He married twice, and had a son. He died in poverty in a hospice in Aix-en-Provence.Ambroise Roux-Alphéran, Les rues d'Aix : Recherches historiques sur l'ancienne capitale de la Provence, Aix-en-Provence: Typographie Aubin, 1846, p. 620-621 Legacy The Rue Jean Pancrace Chastel in Avignon is named in his honor.Google Maps Bibliography *Serge Conard, Jean-Pancrace Chastel: approche de l'oeuvre, Université, 1973, 230 pages.Google Books References Category:1726 births Category:1793 deaths Category:People from Avignon Category:People from Aix-en-Provence Category:18th-century French sculptors Category:French male sculptors "
"Young Girls at the Piano (French: Jeunes filles au piano) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. The painting was completed in 1892 as an informal commission for the Musée du Luxembourg. Renoir painted three other variations of this composition in oil and two sketches, one in oil and one in pastel. Known by the artist as repetitions, they were executed to fulfill commissions from dealers and collectors.Metropolitan Museum of Art By Gary Tinterow, The work is on public display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris. Description Renoir depicts two young girls at a piano in a bourgeois home, one in a white dress with blue sash seated playing and one in a pink dress standing. Renoir completed three additional versions of this composition in oil for collectors; the Luxembourg version is now housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris,Jeunes filles au piano at the Musée d'Orsay the Robert Lehman Collection version is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,Two Young Girls at the Piano at the Met while the Caillebotte version and one other are in private collections. An oil sketch of the composition is on display at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris and a pastel sketch is in a private collection.Young Girls at the Piano at Google Cultural Institute The painting in the Musée d'Orsay is 116 cm high and 90 cm wide. The version at the Met is 111.8 x 86.4 cm. The oil sketch at the Musée de l'Orangerie is 116.0 x 81.0 cm.http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/orangerie/renoirimage.html Pissarro and Monet routinely painted series of variations on a single theme, but their works were intended to be shown together to chronicle the effects of light and atmosphere, while Renoir’s repetitions were independent essays in composition.Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Paintings By Richard Robson Brettell, Paul Hayes Tucker, In particular, details and poses changed subtly, and the sketches eliminate most of the background elements. Renoir explored a similar composition with his earlier 1888 work The Daughters of Catulle Mendès, now in the Annenberg Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.The Daughters of Catulle Mendès at the Met References External links * Young Girls at the Piano, 1892, Auguste Renoir, Google Art Project, www.googleartproject.com Category:1892 paintings Category:Paintings by Pierre- Auguste Renoir Category:Paintings of the Musée d'Orsay Category:Musical instruments in art "
"The 32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division was an mechanised infantry division of the Soviet Ground Forces. It was descended from Red Army World War II formations. It traces its history to the establishment of the 2nd Airborne Corps in May 1942. Mikhail Tikhonov commanded both the 2nd Airborne Corps and the later 32nd Guards Rifle Division. The division fought at Krasnodar, on the Kuban, and in Crimea prior to fighting in Kurland.Robert G. Poirier and Albert Z. Conner, The Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War, Novato: Presidio Press, 1985. . On 1 June 1942 it was part of 47th Army, North Caucasus Front.Combat composition of the Soviet Army (BSSA), 1 June 1942 The division was with the 2nd Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front in May 1945. After the war it was reduced for a time to the 5th Independent Guards Rifle Brigade. It then became the 66th Guards Mechanised Division and then the 114th Guards Motor Rifle Division in June 1957. The 114th Guards MRD became the 32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division on 17 November 1964 at Kalinin.Michael Holm, 32nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division, and V.I. Feskov, Golikov V.I., K.A. Kalashnikov, and S.A. Slugin, The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II, from the Red Army to the Soviet (Part 1: Land Forces). (В.И. Слугин С.А. Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской (часть 1: Сухопутные войска)) Томск, 2013. Improved version of 2004 work with many inaccuracies corrected. The division included the 416th, 418th, and 420th Guards MRRs and 378th Tank Regiment. It was based in the Moscow Military District from 1957 to 1993. In October 1989 the division was renamed the 5210th Guards Weapons and Equipment Storage Base. The storage base was itself disbanded in 1993. References *Keith E. Bonn, Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front, Aberjona Press, Bedford, PA., 2005. G032 Category:Military units and formations established in 1965 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1989 "