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Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la droite (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Essai de figure en plein-air: Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la droite (Woman with a Parasol) 1886 Oil on canvas, 130.5 × 89.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la gauche…

Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la gauche (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Essai de figure en plein-air: Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la gauche (Woman with a Parasol) 1886 Oil on canvas, 131 × 88.7 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la…

Dans les bois de Giverny (1887)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Dans les bois de Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé à son chevalet et Suzanne Hoschedé lisant (In the Woods at Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading) 1887 Oil on canvas, 91.44 x 97.79 cm Los…

Madame Monet et son fils Jean (1874)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Monet et son fils Jean (Madame Monet and Her Son Jean) 1874 Oil on canvas, 50.4 x 68 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In July and August 1874 Manet vacationed at his family’s house in…

Alice Hoschedé au jardin (1881)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Alice Hoschedé au jardin (Alice Hoschedé in the Garden) 1881 Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm Private collection Monet‘s magnificent depiction of his garden at Vétheuil exemplifies the visual splendor of Impressionism at its height. Monet…

La femme à la rose (1884)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) La femme à la rose (Woman with a Rose) 1884 Oil on canvas, 72.7 x 60.3 cm Private collection The presence of women in Caillebotte‘s work is rare relative to his contemporaries, such as Edgar Degas and…

Portrait de Madame Anne-Marie Hagen (1879)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait de Madame Anne-Marie Hagen 1879 Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.2 cm Private collection Born into a wealthy Normandy family, Gustave Caillebotte was at the centre of the Impressionist movement, exhibiting with the group from 1876…

Édouard Manet: Quotations

Édouard Manet (1832-1883) “Il n’y a pas de lignes dans la nature, seulement des zones de couleur placées les unes contre les autres.” (There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.)

John Keats: Quotations

John Keats (1795-1821) When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all…