Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) George Moore 1879 Pastel on canvas, 55.2 x 35.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This pastel, executed in one sitting, depicts the Irish critic and novelist George Moore. He used it as the frontispiece for…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) George Moore dans le jardin de l’artiste (George Moore in the Artist’s Garden) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 45.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A pale-skinned young man with a carrot-red beard and hair faces…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Camille sur son lit de mort (Camille on her Deathbed) 1879 Oil on canvas, 90 x 68 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pommes et raisins (Apples and Grapes) c.1879–1880 Oil on canvas, 67.6 x 89.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of three tabletop still lifes depicting a basket of apples and grapes that Monet…
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…
Abbéma, Louise (1853-1927) Portrait de Jeanne Samary, actrice française (Portrait of Jeanne Samary, French actress) c.1879 Oil on canvas Musée Carnavalet, Paris See also: • Samary, Jeanne (1857-1890)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les vendangeurs (The Mussel Harvest) 1879 Oil on canvas, 54.2 x 65.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Rameurs à Chatou (Oarsmen at Chatou) 1879 Oil on canvas, 81.2 x 100.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Close to us, a woman and two men stand on a grassy riverbank looking out at the expanse…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Loge c.1878–1880 Oil on canvas, 79.8 x 63.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the knees up, two young women with pale, peachy skin wearing white gowns sit close together and almost fill this…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’Edmond Duranty (Portrait of Edmond Duranty) 1879 Gouache with pastel enlivenment on linen, 100 x 100.4 cm Burrell Collection, Glasgow See also: • Duranty, Edmond (1833-1880)