Month: August 2020

Venetian Bead Stringers (1880 or 1882)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Venetian Bead Stringers 1880 or 1882 Oil on canvas, 66.99 x 78.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo John Singer Sargent was fond of making studies in watercolor or oil and often sketched the everyday scenes or…

Notre-Dame, une fin d’après-midi (1902)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Notre-Dame, une fin d’après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon) 1902 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 72.39 x 54.61 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon…

Notre-Dame de Paris

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris Construction started: 1163 Opened: 1345 Address: 6 Parvis Notre-Dame, Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France Notre-Dame in Art: Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) L’Immortalité 1889 National Museum Wales, Cardiff     Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris 1888 Detroit…

La toilette (1906)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La toilette 1906 Oil on canvas, 151.13 x 99.06 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1904, Pablo Picasso moved from his home in Spain to the bohemian Paris neighborhood of Montparnasse, beginning his lifelong relationship with the…

Petit nu bleu (c.1878-1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Petit nu bleu (Little Blue Nude) c.1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 38.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During the late 1870s Pierre-Auguste Renoir began applying Impressionist theory to the rendering of the human figure—a process that…

Le matin en Provence (c.1900-1906)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Le matin en Provence (Morning in Provence) c.1900–1906 Oil on canvas, 81.28 x 63.18 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Paul Cézanne painted this light-filled landscape late in his life while living in his hometown of Aix-en-Provence. Cézanne…

L’Ambitieuse (1883-1885)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman) 1883–1885 Oil on canvas, 142.24 x 101.6 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman), also referred to as The Reception, belongs to a series of fifteen large paintings that James Tissot executed between…

Femme cousant (c.1879)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Femme cousant (Woman Sewing) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 65.405 x 54.61 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo One of the few female painters associated with Impressionism, Berthe Morisot created a niche for herself with instinctive paintings of domestic…