Month: June 2019

Place du Théâtre-Français au printemps (1898)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre-Français au printemps (Place du Theatre-Francais, Spring) 1898 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Here Pissarro depicted that part of Paris near the Comedie Francaise, although the theatre building itself remains outside…

Place du Théâtre-Français, effet de brouillard (1897)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre-Français, effet de brouillard (Place du Theatre Francais: Fog Effect) 1897 Oil on canvas, 54.61 × 66.36 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Pissarro painted Place du Théâtre Français from his room at the Grand Hôtel du…

Place André-Malraux (Paris)

Place André-Malraux in Art: Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre-Français, effet de brouillard 1897 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas     Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre-Français au printemps 1898 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg     See also: • Malraux, André (1901-1976) | Paris…

Paysage marin (1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Paysage marin (Seascape) 1879 Oil on canvas, 72.6 × 91.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Jeune femme cousant (1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme cousant (Young Woman Sewing) 1879 Oil on canvas, 61.4 × 50.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The model for this elegant painting of a French bourgeois woman sewing may be Aline Charigot, whom Pierre-Auguste Renoir would…

Jean Renoir cousant (1899-1900)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jean Renoir cousant (Jean Renoir Sewing) 1899–1900 Oil on canvas, 55.4 × 46.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s son Jean, seen here, served as a model for his father from a young age. Renoir so loved…

Chrysanthèmes (1881-1882)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Chrysanthèmes (Chrysanthemums) 1881–1882 Oil on canvas, 54.8 × 65.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “I just let my brain rest when I paint flowers,” Pierre-Auguste Renoir remarked. “I don’t experience the same tension as I do when confronted…

Acrobates au cirque Fernando (1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Acrobates au cirque Fernando (Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Oil on canvas, 131.2 × 99.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats…