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Portrait de Georges Clemenceau (1879-1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Georges Clemenceau (Portrait of Georges Clemenceau) 1879–1880 Oil on canvas, 115.9 x 88.2 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Shortly after he became prime minister of France in 1906, Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) ordered Manet’s controversial painting…

Portrait de Verlaine (1867)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Portrait de Verlaine (Portrait of Verlaine) 1867 Oil on canvas, 57.2 x 45.1 cm Private collection A false signature Gustave Courbet covered the real Frédéric Bazille. Signed F. Bazille, dated 1867 and dedicated “à mon cher ami le…

Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard (1899)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard (Portrait of Ambroise Vollard) 1899 Oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm Petit Palais, Paris According to Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), this portrait, undertaken by Cézanne in his studio near the Montmartre cemetery, required 115 morning sittings.…

Ambroise Vollard (1908)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Ambroise Vollard 1908 Oil on canvas, 81.6 x 65.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London One of the principal modern art dealers in the early twentieth century and a shrewd businessman, Ambroise Vollard sold much of Renoir’s work after…

Portrait de femme

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) s.d. Oil on canvas, 30 x 26 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Ciego popular en Cádiz

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Ciego popular en Cádiz (Popular blind man in Cadiz) s.d. Watercolor on paper, 26.5 x 17.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Costumbrista scene whose main interest lies in the fact that it is a…

Bal masqué à l’Opéra (1873)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Bal masqué à l’Opéra (Masked Ball at the Opera) 1873 Oil on canvas, 59.1 x 72.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Manet came from a well–to–do family, and this painting provides a glimpse of the sophisticated…