Claude Raguet Hirst

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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Artist Spotlight: Claude Raguet Hirst—Trumping Male Still Life
Posted: March 22, 2011
Category: Claude Raguet Hirst
Learn more about artist Claude Raguet Hirst, whose work A Gentleman’s Table (late 1890s to early 1900s) is featured in the NMWA collection.
Painting of a blue tablecloth with gold and red pattern. Strewn across the top are half-empty glasses of wine and brown liquid, playing cards, lemon halves and matches. Two pipes, one long and white, one small and dark, lie next to a container of sugar cubes, corks, and bottles.