Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Parade de cirque (Circus Sideshow) 1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 149.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the Salon des Indépendants in 1888 Seurat demonstrated the versatility of his technique by exhibiting Circus Sideshow,…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Les Poseuses (The Models) 1886–1888 Oil on canvas, 200 x 249.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia In this scene set inside the artist’s studio, Seurat depicts models posing in front of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 (1884–86;…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Jeune femme se poudrant (Young Woman Powdering Herself) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 79.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In this particular painting, Young Woman Powdering Herself, the modulation of light and shadow on the…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La récolte des pommes à Éragny (Apple Harvest at Éragny) 1888 Oil on canvas, 60.96 x 73.98 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Points of red, blue, green, pink, lavender, orange, and yellow create a stylized and…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La Toilette apres le bain (The toilette after the bath) c.1888 Pastel on paper on cardboard, 66.5 x 78.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Premier deuil (The First Mourning) 1888 Oil on canvas, 203 x 250 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires During the last quarter of the 19th Century, every month of May would bring extensive accounts of…
(1888–1972) Maurice Auguste Chevalier Filmography as Actor: Love in the Afternoon 1957 Director: Billy Wilder Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn In Search of the Castaways 1962 Director: Robert Stevenson Starring: Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier Born September 12…
(1888–1982) Kathleen Mary Nesbitt, CBE Filmography as Actress: Caesar and Cleopatra 1945 Director: Gabriel Pascal Starring: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains Désirée 1954 Director: Henry Koster Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons Three Coins in the Fountain 1954 Director: Jean Negulesco Starring:…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les prairies à Giverny (Meadows at Giverny) 1888 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Monet first moved to Giverny in 1883, and was to spent the whole of the second of his…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) A la Bastille, Jeanne Wenz (At the Bastille, Jeanne Wenz) 1888 Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 49.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Wenz, Jeanne