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La Première Sortie (1876-1877)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Première Sortie (At the Theatre) 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 65 × 49.5 cm National Gallery, London We seem to be sitting in a box at the theatre, which we share with two young women. But we can’t be…

La Brioche (1870)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Brioche (The Brioche) 1870 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet reportedly called still life the “touchstone of the painter.” From 1862 to 1870 he executed several large-scale tabletop scenes…

Pandore (1910-1912)

Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Pandore (Pandora) 1910–1912 Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 62.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A pale-skinned young woman with copper-orange hair, wearing a turquoise-blue robe, stands in a pastel-infused landscape in this stylized, vertical painting. The woman fills…

Pandore (c.1914)

Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Pandore (Pandora) c.1914 Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In classical mythology, Pandora was a supremely beautiful woman created by the gods and sent to Earth to live among mortals. Redon…

L’Arcangelo Raffaele con Tobia (c.1496-1500)

Perugino (c.1446-1523) L’Arcangelo Raffaele con Tobia (The Archangel Raphael with Tobias) c.1496–1500 Oil and egg temera on poplar, 113.3 x 56.5 cm National Gallery, London This was the right panel of the predella of an altarpiece made for the Duke of Milan,…