{"title":"Winter Selection","description":"\u003cp\u003eA seasonal selection by Dr. Walther Fuchs, changed by hand rather than by algorithm. Winter and Christmas motifs from the documented originals: artist, year, holding institution and rights status are named on every listing.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"caspar-david-friedrich-moonlit-scene","title":"Caspar David Friedrich: Two Men Contemplating the Moon, 1825 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCaspar David Friedrich\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo Men Contemplating the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e, 1825\u003cbr\u003eoil on canvas, 34.9 × 43.8 cm\u003cbr\u003eThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Wrightsman Fund, 2000, acc, inv. 2000.51\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain (CC0)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo figures, seen from behind, stand on a high path and look out at a vast, indeterminate space. The figures are small; the landscape is enormous. A moonlit path and a gnarled, half-uprooted oak frame the field into which they stare, and they carry with them the irreducible privacy of their own contemplation. Friedrich's figures never look back at us; they are absorbed in what lies before them, and we are left to imagine what they see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is the central figure of German Romantic painting, and \u003cem\u003eTwo Men Contemplating the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e — a composition he returned to in several versions from about 1819 onward — is among the most recognisable images in the history of European landscape art. The two men are usually identified as the painter himself and his pupil August Heinrich, in the years when Friedrich stood closest to the philosophical and literary circles of German Romanticism — the world of Novalis, Schiller and Tieck. Their pose suggests the passing on of a sensibility from one generation to the next, nature approached as a form of spiritual attention. The oak at the right, leafless and ancient, is a recurring Friedrich symbol: endurance, the persistence of the living through adversity, the German forest as both physical fact and national imagination. The version on this mug hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaspar David Friedrich, \u003cem\u003eTwo Men Contemplating the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e, ca. 1825–30, oil on canvas, 34.9 × 43.8 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Wrightsman Fund, 2000, acc. no. 2000.51. Public domain (CC0).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57724211364171,"sku":"cc76d76d-ce0b-4bc3-9ebe-160b34488fa4","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/Friedrich_Mug_front.jpg?v=1787054191"},{"product_id":"alfred-stieglitz-winter-fifth-avenue-mug","title":"Alfred Stieglitz: Winter, Fifth Avenue, 1893 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAlfred Stieglitz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinter, Fifth Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, 1893\u003cbr\u003ephotogravure from the original negative\u003cbr\u003eThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 58\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003eOpen-access image released by the museum under CC0\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlfred Stieglitz made \u003cem\u003eWinter, Fifth Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e in 1893 during a blizzard that effectively emptied the streets of New York — standing in the snow for three hours waiting for the right moment, a patience that was rewarded with one of the defining images of nineteenth-century photography. The photograph shows a horse-drawn carriage emerging from a veil of falling snow on a deserted Fifth Avenue, the city behind it dissolved into grey. It was the image that established Stieglitz's reputation and helped make the argument — then far from settled — that photography could be a fine art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStieglitz (1864–1946) would go on to become the most significant figure in American art photography of the early twentieth century, founding the Photo-Secession movement, editing the journal \u003cem\u003eCamera Notes\u003c\/em\u003e and later \u003cem\u003eCamera Work\u003c\/em\u003e, and running the gallery 291, where he showed Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, and Rodin to American audiences for the first time. \u003cem\u003eWinter, Fifth Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e precedes all of this, but contains its essential argument: that a photograph, made with sufficient attention and intention, can be a work of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlfred Stieglitz, \u003cem\u003eWinter—Fifth Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, 1893; photogravure from the original negative, published in \u003cem\u003eCamera Work\u003c\/em\u003e No. 12, October 1905. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 58.577.20. Open-access image released by the museum under CC0.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":56856454857035,"sku":"459b6d29-6f3b-4eec-b029-0b3ff569cc9c","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/Stieglitz_CameraWork_Mug_front.jpg?v=1788040023"},{"product_id":"giotto-madonna-child-art-mug","title":"Giotto di Bondone: Madonna and Child, c. 1310 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGiotto di Bondone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadonna and Child\u003c\/em\u003e, c. 1310\u003cbr\u003etempera on poplar panel, 85.4 × 61.8 cm\u003cbr\u003eKress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003ePainted in the same years as the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, this is the moment when Western painting broke with Byzantine convention: figures began to occupy space, faces began to hold emotion. The work passed through the collection of New York banker Henry Goldman before entering the Samuel H. Kress Collection — a trajectory that traces how Renaissance devotional painting migrated from Florentine altars to American museums.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rose in Mary's hand is not decoration. It is a theological argument: she is identified with the Church as the bride of Christ. The Christ Child's gesture simultaneously signals divine mission and human attachment. This is not the most famous Giotto — it is the one that rewards looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiotto di Bondone, \u003cem\u003eMadonna and Child\u003c\/em\u003e, c. 1310–1315, tempera on poplar panel, 85.4 × 61.8 cm. Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":50957461586251,"sku":"0fb589cb-a69b-4a03-af88-f9e99ef2a63e","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/Giotto_Mug_front_v3.jpg?v=1787129205"},{"product_id":"ski-jumping-couple-mug","title":"Francisco Tamagno: Chamonix Ski Jumpers, 1900 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFrancisco Tamagno\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eChamonix Ski Jumpers\u003c\/em\u003e, 1900\u003cbr\u003echromolithographic poster for the P, 99.2 × 61.2 cm\u003cbr\u003einv. 000416-C\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eA couple caught mid-jump, suspended above a snow slope in the posture of early ski jumping. The technique and the equipment of 1900 required a particular kind of courage: bindings were primitive and protective clothing nearly non-existent. Winter sport as exhilarating modernity, the mountain as playground rather than obstacle, the couple in flight as an emblem of the new century's optimism about what a body could do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image is the picture field of a chromolithographic poster, \u003cem\u003eChamonix — Mont-Blanc\u003c\/em\u003e, signed \u003cem\u003eTamagno\u003c\/em\u003e at the lower left and printed by Imp. Émile Pécaud \u0026amp; Cie in Paris. It was made for the \u003cstrong\u003eP.L.M.\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Paris–Lyon–Méditerranée railway — and this edition is in English. It announces \u003cem\u003eInternational Contests of Skis, Bobsleighs, Tobogans\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eMt Blanc Challenge Cup\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eInternational Skating Competitions\u003c\/em\u003e, promises express trains with through carriages, and directs enquiries to the P.L.M. company's offices at 179–180 Piccadilly, London, or to the syndicate at Chamonix. The sheet was printed to sell the Alps to British travellers, and it says so in every line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Nicolas Tamagno (1851–1933) was an Italian-born graphic artist who worked principally in France. His poster belongs to the golden age of French chromolithography, when the medium was being pushed to its limits of colour and graphic invention by artists including Mucha, Chéret and Toulouse-Lautrec. The mug carries the picture field alone, without the lettering; the fourth product image shows the whole sheet with the printed part marked, so the crop is visible for what it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Nicolas Tamagno, detail from \u003cem\u003eChamonix — Mont-Blanc\u003c\/em\u003e, chromolithographic poster for the P.L.M., printed by Imp. Émile Pécaud \u0026amp; Cie, Paris. Public domain. The complete sheet reproduced in the gallery is the copy in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona — colour lithograph, 99.2 × 61.2 cm, inv. 000416-C, gift of Joan Vidal Ventosa, 1927 — which the museum dates c. 1900–1910 and publishes as public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57723540635979,"sku":"eeb41ec4-51f4-4378-a0fe-4c34222895ac","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/SkiJumping_Mug_front_v3.jpg?v=1787127734"},{"product_id":"henri-matisse-nuit-de-noel-christmas-night-mug","title":"Henri Matisse: Nuit de Noël, 1952 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHenri Matisse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNuit de Noël\u003c\/em\u003e, 1952\u003cbr\u003elithograph 1958\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003ePublic domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1952, \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine commissioned Henri Matisse to design a stained-glass window for its New York offices — a commission he accepted at the age of eighty-two, working from his apartment in Nice where illness had largely confined him for the previous decade. The resulting design, \u003cem\u003eNuit de Noël\u003c\/em\u003e (Christmas Night), was completed in 1952 and translated into glass the following year. Like all of Matisse's late work, it was made using the cut-out technique: shapes cut from paper painted in pure gouache, then arranged and rearranged until the composition resolved itself. The design was subsequently issued as a lithograph, in editions of 1951 and 1958, reproducing the brilliant yellows and blues of the stained glass in a form that could be widely distributed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNuit de Noël\u003c\/em\u003e is a composition of extraordinary simplicity and radiance: abstract leaf and star forms in saturated yellow against a ground of deep blue, the whole suggesting candlelight, cold sky, and the particular stillness of the Christmas season without depicting any of them directly. It is Matisse at his most distilled — the reduction of a complex visual idea to its irreducible essentials — and it demonstrates that the cut-out method, which had begun as a practical adaptation to physical limitation, had become the most expressive instrument of his final years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-gerbe\"\u003eLa Gerbe, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-icarus\"\u003eIcarus, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-self-portrait\"\u003eSelf-Portrait, 1930\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-the-snail\"\u003eThe Snail, 1953\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-blue-nude-ii-mug\"\u003eBlue Nude II, 1952\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-les-velours-mug\"\u003eLes Velours, 1947\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/matisse-la-danse-mug\"\u003eLa Danse, 1909\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/products\/henri-matisse-la-danse-graveur-mug\"\u003eLa Danse (Barnes Mural), 1933\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri Matisse, \u003cem\u003eNuit de Noël\u003c\/em\u003e (Christmas Night), maquette 1952, lithograph 1958. Public domain in Switzerland, the EU and the United Kingdom; Matisse died in 1954. This mug is not sold into the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":57723491189067,"sku":"b0e4cc5c-dd14-40ca-8b7a-b4eacea5133f","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/ef928290-421e-4b91-afd2-d4b91d117f00.jpg?v=1786719984"},{"product_id":"francois-pompon-polar-bear-mug","title":"François Pompon: Polar Bear, 1922 – Porcelain Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFrançois Pompon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolar Bear\u003c\/em\u003e, 1922\u003cbr\u003emarble on marble base, 27.9 × 48.3 × 17.1 cm\u003cbr\u003eThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 30\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003eThe sculpture is in the public domain — Pompon died in 1933\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis, autumn 1922. In a corner of the Salon d'Automne an unassuming plaster figure of a polar bear stops visitors mid-step. No anecdotal detail, no textured fur, no glass-eyed realism — just the economical sweep of a shoulder turning into a paw, and a head lifted mid-stride. François Pompon, then sixty-seven and known outside the studios chiefly as the man who had carved other sculptors' marble — Rodin's above all — had made the sculpture of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eOurs blanc\u003c\/em\u003e went on to define an era. Pompon spent his last decade executing it in stone, marble and bronze for collectors and public collections across France, and in 1925 Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann placed a cast at the centre of his pavilion at the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs — the exhibition that gave Art Deco its name. Through radical simplification he found something truer about the animal than surface naturalism ever could.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhich version this is\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bear on this mug is the marble, cut about 1923 — the Salon plaster carried into stone, forty-eight centimetres long on a black marble base, and bought for a New York collection in 1930. It is photographed side on in the museum’s studio against a plain grey ground, so that nothing competes with the silhouette. The marble is left as it is: a warm off-white that the porcelain takes up almost exactly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrançois Pompon (1855–1933), \u003cem\u003ePolar Bear\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eOurs blanc\u003c\/em\u003e), ca. 1923; marble on marble base, 27.9 × 48.3 × 17.1 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 30.123ab, Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1930. The sculpture is in the public domain — Pompon died in 1933. The photograph is the museum’s own, released under CC0 1.0 through its Open Access programme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":56856454070603,"sku":"a635d71b-fcfd-4cb0-8453-3773f5e21127","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/4438ff39-da24-497d-b97d-6e2c9f50e176.jpg?v=1788902166"},{"product_id":"attributed-to-felix-thiollier-lady-and-horse-in-the-snow-1899-art-mug","title":"Attributed to Félix Thiollier: Lady and Horse in the Snow, 1899 – Art Mug","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tz-label\" style=\"border-top:1px solid currentColor;border-bottom:1px solid currentColor;padding:0.9em 0;margin:0 0 1.4em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.16em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.65;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"\u003eThe work on this mug\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAttributed to Félix Thiollier\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLady and Horse in the Snow\u003c\/em\u003e, 1899\u003cbr\u003ephotograph in March 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003eWhat is not in question is the period — dress, plate and handling place the picture firmly around 1900 — nor the copyright status: a photograph of that age is in the public domain whoever made it\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman in a long dark coat walks away from us across a snow-covered paddock, a thin whip trailing from her right hand. Behind her a dark horse breaks into a gallop along the rail. Bare trees stand in the falling snow, and the light is so flat that everything except the two dark shapes dissolves into grey. It is an ordinary working moment — a horse being exercised on a winter morning — held with the compositional care of a painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photograph is generally published as the work of Félix Thiollier (1842–1914) and dated 1899. Thiollier was a Saint-Étienne industrialist who left business early for art and archaeology, taught himself photography, and spent more than twenty years photographing the Forez — its monuments, its ruins, its people and above all its weather — leaving some three to four thousand negatives. He composed like a painter: deliberate framing, subdued light, deep texture. His descendants gave the surviving archive to the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe attribution is traditional rather than documented, and this edition says so. Asked about this photograph in March 2025, the museum's Collections service replied that it could not confirm the attribution from its records. The title and the year travel with the picture wherever it is reproduced; neither has a museum source behind it. What is not in question is the period — dress, plate and handling place the picture firmly around 1900 — nor the copyright status: a photograph of that age is in the public domain whoever made it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttributed to Félix Thiollier (1842–1914), \u003cem\u003eLady and Her Horse on a Snowy Day\u003c\/em\u003e, 1899. Private collection. Public domain. 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He worked on several canvases at once, moving from one to the next as the light moved, and kept it up through the winter. Twenty-five canvases came out of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe subject was never the stacks. It was the half-hour: sunset in snow, the shadows gone blue and the stubble gone violet, the stack itself a dark mass with a burning edge. Monet called what he was chasing \u003cem\u003eenveloppe\u003c\/em\u003e — the air and light lying between the eye and the thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn May 1891 he hung fifteen of the series side by side in one small room at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris. It was a critical and financial success without precedent in his career, and it changed how his work was understood. The poplars, Rouen Cathedral and the water lilies all followed from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-series\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/claude-monet-woman-with-a-parasol-mug\"\u003eWoman with a Parasol, 1875\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaude Monet, \u003cem\u003eStacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1890–91. Oil on canvas, 65.3 × 100.4 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.431. Public domain; the museum’s reproduction is released under CC0.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. 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Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:0.8em;opacity:0.7;margin-top:0.6em;\"\u003eOpen-access image released by the museum under CC0\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1893 Edvard Munch was painting at Åsgårdstrand, the small beach resort south of Oslo where he spent his summers from the 1880s onward. \u003cem\u003eStarry Night\u003c\/em\u003e is that coastline after dark. An abstract mound at the right is a clump of trees; a white fence runs diagonally in front of it; the shoreline is drawn with a single undulating line that continues into the branches. Stars reflect in the water, and a flash of light shines in the trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe picture was painted in the same year as the first version of \u003cem\u003eThe Scream\u003c\/em\u003e, and it shows the other half of the same ambition. Munch was after the emotion the night calls up rather than its picturesque qualities, and the blue carries it. The vaguely defined shape on the fence may be the shadow of two lovers — a motif that recurs throughout his work. Some passages are laid on thickly, others left almost bare so that the lighter parts of the sky come through the weave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"tz-material\"\u003eFine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdvard Munch, Starry Night, 1893, oil on canvas. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.PA.681. 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