Tag: chair

Portrait de Mademoiselle Claus (1868)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Mademoiselle Claus (Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus) 1868 Oil on canvas, 115.7 x 72.8 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford After twice failing the entrance exam to train as a naval officer, Édouard Manet (1832–83) went to Paris to pursue…

Le balcon (1868-1869)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le balcon (The Balcony) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 170 x 125 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Mademoiselle Claus 1868 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford     See also: • Claus, Fanny | Guillemet, Antoine | Koelin-Leenhoff, Léon | Morisot, Berthe

L’Atelier rouge (1911)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) L’Atelier rouge (The Red Studio) 1911 Oil on canvas, 181 x 219.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2013 Succession H. Matisse, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Le Madras Rouge (1907)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Madras Rouge (Red Madras Headdress) 1907 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Image © 2013 The Barnes Foundation ©2011 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York This striking portrait represents Amelie…

Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) 1876 Oil on canvas, 131.5 x 176.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Legrand, Marguerite (?-1879) | Moulin de la Galette (Paris) | Rivière, Georges (1855-1943)

Le Déjeuner (1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Déjeuner (Luncheon) 1875 Oil on canvas, 49.2 x 60 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia The boater hat hanging on the chair tells us that this couple is probably taking a break from a canoe trip. By the late 19th…

Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (1881)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (Two Sisters, On the Terrace) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 × 80.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “He loves everything that is joyous, brilliant, and consoling in life,” an anonymous interviewer once…

Jeunes filles au piano (1892)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) 1892 Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 86.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In late 1891 or early 1892 Renoir was invited by the French government to execute a…