Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Manucure (The Manicure) 1897 Oil on board, 33.5 x 30 cm Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton Like his friend Bonnard, Vuillard was a founder member of Les Nabis. Les Nabis were influenced by Gauguin‘s ideas on Synthetism –…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Pink and Gold: The Neapolitan 1897 Oil on canvas, 50 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Carmen Rossi, the sitter of this small portrait, was an Italian girl who posed for Whistler as a child and…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Baigneuses (Bathers) 1895–1900 Pastel with charcoal underdrawing on paper, 59.1 × 73.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia One of the things that made Degas such a radical artist was his approach to representing the human form. Here, rather than…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Baigneurs dans un paysage vallonné (Bathers in a hilly landscape) c.1896–1898 Print on paper, 479 x 635 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Alternative titles: Les Grands Baigneurs (The Great Bathers) / Baigneurs au repos (Bathers at rest).
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Sous les arbres (Beneath the Trees) 1897–1899 Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, 53 x 67 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection In March 1899 Maurice Denis explained in his diary the difference between the…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Au café (At the Café) c.1897–1899 Oil on board, laid on cradled panel, 28.8 x 27.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Vuillard once said, “I don’t do portraits. I paint people in their surroundings.” This scene of…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Bords de riviere ou Les oies (The River Bank or Geese) 1897 Lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Profile de femme avec vase de fleurs (Profile of a Woman with a Vase of Flowers) c.1895–1905 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 50.5 cm Tate Britain, London This medium-size oil painting by the French artist Odilon Redon depicts…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Lady of Shalott c.1886–1905 Oil on canvas, 188.3 x 146.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford “Do not forsake your duties” is the overall message Hunt wanted to convey in his painting. The Lady, heroine of a Tennyson…
(1840–1897) Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet Daudet’s Grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Windmill of Alphonse Daudet. Works: • Artists’ Wives (English) • Cartas de mi molino (Spanish) • Contes de lundi (French) • Fromont and Risler (English) • Jack (English)…