Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La petite fille à l’arrosoir (A Girl with a Watering Can) 1876 Oil on canvas, 100 x 73 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In 1876, Renoir began to paint anecdotal depictions of women and children, subjects…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Édouard Bernier 1871 Oil on canvas, 78.1 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Marie-Octavie Bernier was the wife of the commander of Renoir‘s regiment during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). In the spring of…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier) 1877 Oil on canvas, 47 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Murer was an artist, celebrated pastry cook, restaurateur, novelist, poet, and avid collector of Impressionist paintings. By 1887, ten…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme assise au bord de la mer (By the Seashore) 1883 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 72.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir likely painted this work in his studio, posing his model in a…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Margaretha de Geer, Wife of Jacob Trip 1661 Oil on canvas, 75.3 x 63.8 cm National Gallery, London Margaretha de Geer was married to Jacob Trip – an extremely wealthy merchant and arms dealer – for…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self Portrait at the Age of 63 1669 Oil on canvas, 86 x 70.5 cm National Gallery, London You are looking into the eyes of a man in the last year of his life. Rembrandt is 63 and…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Titus, the Artist’s Son 1660 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 68.7 cm Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore See also: • Rijn, Titus van (1641-1668)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1660 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rembrandt was a dedicated self-portraitist all his life, and roughly forty self-portraits by him survive today. In this example, painted when Rembrandt was fifty-four,…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Standard Bearer, Floris Soop 1654 Oil on canvas, 140.3 x 114.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The flag, the plume in the hat, and the tooled leather baldric (sword-belt) indicate that the figure is an ensign…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La princesse Pauline de Metternich (Princess Pauline de Metternich) c.1865 Oil on canvas, 41 x 29 cm National Gallery, London Princess Pauline Sander (1836–1921) was the wife of Prince Richard Metternich, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at the court…