Tag: 1875

Matin de printemps (c.1875)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) Matin de printemps (Spring Morning) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 42.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The light on this spring day is so bright that the woman shields her eyes from the glare. She…

Portrait d’Alphonse Legros (1875)

Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Portrait d’Alphonse Legros (Portrait of Alphonse Legros) 1875 Etching, 16.7 × 11.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Ever the restless printmaker, fourteen years after producing a portrait of his friend Alphonse Legros, Bracquemond modified the copper plate…

Portrait de Mlle Quivoron (1860-1914)

Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Portrait de Mlle Quivoron (Portrait of Mlle Quivoron) 1860–1914 Etching, drypoint, 39 × 26.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is a portrait of Louise, Marie Bracquemond‘s sister, who lived with the artist and her husband…

Chemin montant, rue de la Côte-du-Jalet, Pontoise (1875)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Chemin montant, rue de la Côte-du-Jalet, Pontoise (The Climb, Rue de la Côte-du-Jalet, Pontoise) 1875 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.7 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In this painting, Camille Pissarro departs from the legible perspectives of traditional…

L’Amazone (c.1875-1876)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Amazone (The Equestrienne) c.1875–1876 Watercolor on paper, 20.8 x 27 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In the mid-nineteenth century, the term amazone mockingly referred to fashionable Parisian women who preferred to ride on horseback instead of inside a…

Avant le bain (c.1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Avant le bain (Before the Bath) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 82 x 66.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia When Renoir first exhibited this painting publicly, at an 1875 auction in Paris, audiences were shocked by its naturalism. Rather than…

La Famille Henriot (c.1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Famille Henriot (Henriot Family) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 164.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Daytrips to the countryside around Paris became a popular form of leisure during the late 19th century. Renoir alludes to this kind…