Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Amazone (The Equestrienne) c.1875–1876 Watercolor on paper, 20.8 x 27 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In the mid-nineteenth century, the term amazone mockingly referred to fashionable Parisian women who preferred to ride on horseback instead of inside a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Petit nu bleu (Little Blue Nude) c.1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 38.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During the late 1870s Pierre-Auguste Renoir began applying Impressionist theory to the rendering of the human figure—a process that…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de Madame Monet (Portrait of Madame Monet) c.1874 Oil on canvas, 61.7 x 50.3 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Joseph Roulin assis (Joseph Roulin seated) 1888 Oil on canvas, 81.3 cm × 65.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Van Gogh left Paris for Arles, a small town in southern France, in February 1888, where he…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le docteur Paul Gachet (Doctor Paul Gachet) 1890 Oil on canvas, 68.2 x 57 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Inseparably entwined with the last period of Vincent van Gogh‘s life in Auvers, Dr Gachet was an original character. He…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water 1840 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 122.2 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Portrait du docteur Gachet (Portrait of Dr. Gachet) 1890 Oil on canvas, 67 cm × 56 cm Private Collection, Tokyo F753-JH2007 Compare with the 2nd version: Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Le docteur Paul Gachet 1890 Musée d’Orsay, Paris …
Derain, André (1880-1954) Roses au picket bleu (Roses in blue jug) 1920s Oil on canvas, 45.6 × 41.7 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Iris bleus, jardin du Petit Gennevilliers (Blue irises, garden of Petit Gennevilliers) c.1892 Oil on canvas, 55.2 × 46.4 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Gennevilliers (France)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) L’Ascète (The Ascetic) 1903 Oil on canvas, 118.4 x 80.6 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Between 1901 and 1904, during what is now called his Blue Period, Picasso pursued the themes of suffering and alienation, taking the sick, the…