BBP

Hey there,
I'm looking for the name of this painting, and its artist. As the image is from a computer game, I cannot get a clearer version. From the context I guess it's an impressionist artwork.

John

This picture looks a little clumsy and the proportions are odd. I'm not an artist, but it seems like the head is too small and the arms are all wrong. So my guess would be that it's not directly based on a real painting, although it's reminiscent of the many ballerina paintings by Degas.

BBP

The computer game is called Gabriel Knight 3. There are some 50 images of impressionist paintings featured in it. I managed to identify most of them for my Gabriel Knight homepage. There are a few which I haven't yet found, and this is the one that is bugging me the most.
I already talked to the man who put the paintings in there in the first place. He said he got them off one of those public-domain art CDs and didn't bother to write down the artist names or anything.
In order to find these images, I've checked numerous impressionist art books and artist monographies. I have viewed pretty much every Degas sketch, pastel, painting etc, but I couldn't yet identify this one.

In short the image is likely to be an impressionist painting. It's very possible that the dimensions are a bit off, that the colours are off and that it's in reverse.

Eirene

I agree with John. Very clumsy, and those arms are quite strange. Definitely not Degas. I have looked through hundreds of ballerina paintings with no luck on this one.

BBP

Oh dear... it's really getting up my nerves, this. I searched through literally all of the works of Monet, Manet, Sisley, Seurat, Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne and Degas and a bunch of others, plus I searched a lot of on-line galleries and browsed bookstores and library books, but I have no result as of yet.

There are other images in this game which I haven't identified either, but none of them seem to be impressionist paintings. If you could try to help me out with those... Please? They are:

http://bonny.ploeg.ws/gabriel/museum_3.png
This harpy looks deceptively like the Winged Maiden on the Royal Standard of the UK. When I went to research it again, I discovered the figure looks more like a man. In that case, it could be symbolic of David.

http://bonny.ploeg.ws/gabriel/serres_1.png
I couldn't get this in a straight angle. The game has a loose camera, which the player controls and can move freely inside the room the player's in.

http://bonny.ploeg.ws/gabriel/serres_2.png

http://bonny.ploeg.ws/gabriel/baza_4.png
Some Egyptian scene.

http://bonny.ploeg.ws/gabriel/hs_4.png
It would help greatly if I could figure out what kind of birds they are...

http://bonny.ploeg.ws/gabriel/hs_3.png
That looks like a nautilus shell.
I couldn't get it lighter, either. In the game these paintings are in a dark attic.

BBP

And then you look into a book, after well over a year of searching and having viewed every Degas ballet dancer many more times than is bearable...
and then you find this.
http://www.edgar-degas.org/Before-th...-98-large.html
Second girl from the right, perhaps? Same pose, same arms... Did Degas make a sketch from this one?

John

Hey, you could be right. But if so it has been completely redrawn, either by Degas (whch, as I said, I find hard to believe) or by a copyist or by the game designer.