Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baie de Naples au matin (The Bay of Naples) 1881 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The corner of the balcony visible at lower left in this composition indicates Renoir’s…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Femmes sur la plage de Berck (Women on the Beach at Berck) 1881 Oil on wood, 24.8 x 36.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Berck (France)
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Cup of Tea c.1880–1881 Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Taking afternoon tea was a social ritual for many upper-middle-class women. Committed to portraying the ordinary events of everyday…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Bouquet de soleils (Bouquet of Sunflowers) 1881 Oil on canvas, 101 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In November 1888, Van Gogh wrote: “Gauguin was telling me the other day—that he’d seen a painting by…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’Antonin Proust (Portrait of Antonin Proust) 1881 Oil on canvas, 183 x 110.5 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Antonin Proust was a key figure in artistic life under the Third Republic. Born in Niort in 1832, he studied…
Opened: 1881 Address: Via Alessandro Manzoni, 12, 20121 Milano MI, Italia Website: https://museopoldipezzoli.it/ Collection: • Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510): Compianto sul Cristo morto (1495-1500) • Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510): Madonna del Libro (1480-1481) See also: • Milano (Italia) | Museums
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1881 Pastel on paper, 69.2 x 69.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Fruits du Midi (Fruits of the Midi) 1881 Oil on canvas, 51 x 65 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Le Midi (France)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (Two Sisters, On the Terrace) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 × 80.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “He loves everything that is joyous, brilliant, and consoling in life,” an anonymous interviewer once…
(1881–1959) Cecil Blount DeMille Filmography as Director: Samson and Delilah 1949 Director: Cecil B. DeMille Starring: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature The Ten Commandments 1956 Director: Cecil B. DeMille Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner Born August 12 1881 Ashfield, MA (USA) Died January 21…