Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) M. Loulou (Mr. Louis Le Ray) 1890 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 46.4 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Beginning in 1886 Gauguin frequently painted in Le Pouldo, a small town in the Brittany region of France, attracted by what…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Leçon de musique (The Music Lesson) 1917 Oil on canvas, 245.1 x 210.8 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Matisse set this portrait of his wife, daughter, and two sons in the living room of the family home in…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Bascule (The See-Saw) c.1750–1752 Oil on canvas, 120 x 94.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This canvas forms the pair to a painting in the Toledo Museum of Art entitled Blind Man’s Buff (Le Colin-Maillard). Both were in…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les enfants du pêcheur (The Fisherman’s Children) 1867 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The special appeal of this rather small canvas is threefold: It combines a calm beach at low tide with an…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Régalade (Boy with Pitcher) 1862–1872 Oil on canvas, 61.8 × 54.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “X-radiographs have revealed that this painting is a fragment of Les Gitanes, a large portrait of a gypsy family exhibited…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Petit Lange (Little Lange) 1862 Oil on canvas, 143 x 100 cm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Jeune garçon pelant une poire (Young Boy Peeling a Pear) 1868 Oil on canvas, 85 x 71 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm See also: • Koelin-Leenhoff, Léon (1852-1927)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Les Bulles de savon (Boy Blowing Bubbles) 1867 Oil on canvas, 100.5 x 81.4 cm Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa See also: • Koelin-Leenhoff, Léon (1852-1927)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Gamin aux cerises (Boy with Cherries) c.1858 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 54.5 cm Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa Behind the irreverent cheerfulness of the sitter, this portrait hides the tragedy of his fate. Alexandre, who washed Manet’s paintbrushes…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Wagon de troisième classe (The Third-Class Carriage) c.1862–1864 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 90.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York As a graphic artist and painter, Daumier chronicled the impact of industrialization on modern urban life in…