Month: October 2013

Louis Edmond Duranty

(1833–1880) Louis Émile Edmond Duranty Duranty in Art: Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’Edmond Duranty 1879 Burrell Collection, Glasgow     Born June 5 1833 Paris (France) Died April 9 1880 Paris…

Femme au chapeau (1905)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat) 1905 Oil on canvas, 80.65 x 59.69 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco See also: • Matisse-Parayre, Amélie Noellie (1872-1958)

La Raie verte (1905)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Raie verte, Madame Matisse (The Green Stripe, Madame Matisse) 1905 Oil and tempera on canvas, 40.5 x 32.5 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen © Succession H. Matisse, Paris This depiction of the artist’s wife, Amélie, is…

Caroline Brunet

Caroline Brunet, née Pène Madame Brunet in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Madame Brunet c.1860–1863, reworked by 1867 Getty Center, Los Angeles     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Musique aux Tuileries 1862 National Gallery, London   Husband Eugène-Cyrille Brunet (1828-1921)

La Danse (1909-1910)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Danse (Dance) 1909–1910 Oil on canvas, 260 x 391 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg © Succession H. Matisse The pair of panels known as “The Dance and Music” (also in the Hermitage) are amongst Matisse‘s most important –…

Marianne Offenbach

Marianne Offenbach, née Rindskopf Madame Offenbach in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Musique aux Tuileries 1862 National Gallery, London   Husband Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

Valentine Thérèse Lejosne

Valentine Thérèse Lejosne, née Cazalis-Allut Madame Lejosne in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Musique aux Tuileries 1862 National Gallery, London    

La Musique (1910)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Musique (Music) 1910 Oil on canvas, 260 x 389 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg © Succession H. Matisse “Music” forms a pair to “The Dance“, also painted in 1910. After the collector Sergey Shchukin commissioned “The Dance”, he…

La Fenêtre ouverte, Collioure (1905)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Fenêtre ouverte, Collioure (Open Window, Collioure) 1905 Oil on canvas, 55.25 × 46.04 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Matisse‘s Open Window, Collioure is an icon of early modernism. A small but explosive work, it is celebrated…

Autoportrait (1906)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1906 Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen © Succession H. Matisse/BilledKunst Copydan 2012