Tag: 1883

Madame X (1883-1884)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 208.6 x 109.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Madame Pierre Gautreau (the Louisiana-born Virginie Amélie Avegno; 1859–1915) was known in Paris for her artful appearance.…

Richard Wagner

(1813–1883) Wilhelm Richard Wagner Works: • Das Rheingold (The Ring of the Nibelung) (1869) • Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) (1843) • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg) (1868) • Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) (1870) • Götterdämmerung…

Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey (c.1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey c.1883 Oil on canvas, 29.2 x 54 cm National Gallery, London This picture shows the view across Moulin Huet Bay on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Renoir seems to have recreated the…

Femme nue couchée (1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme nue couchée (Reclining Nude) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Nudes and the grand tradition of classical art preoccupied Renoir in the 1880s. In this painting, he paid…

Femme assise au bord de la mer (1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme assise au bord de la mer (By the Seashore) 1883 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 72.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir likely painted this work in his studio, posing his model in a…