Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV armado, con un león a los pies (Philip IV in Armour, with a Lion at his Feet) c.1653 Oil on canvas, 234 x 131.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In its present state the painting…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Berthe Morisot et sa fille, Julie Manet (Berthe Morisot and her daughter Julie Manet) 1894 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.5 cm Private collection Berthe Morisot et sa fille, Julie Manet is a rare and intimate depiction…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jean Monet dans son berceau (The Cradle – Camille with the Artist’s Son Jean) 1867 Oil on canvas, 116.2 x 88.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto a baby tucked into an…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Mademoiselle Sicot 1865 Oil on canvas, 116 x 89.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the knees up, a woman with pale, pink skin and cinnamon-brown hair sits with her hands in her lap…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme au chat (Woman with a Cat) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 56 x 46.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the waist up, a young woman wearing white sits in an armchair cuddling a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Une serveuse au restaurant Duval (Waitress at Duval’s Restaurant) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 71.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The title Renoir conferred on this painting is untraced. By 1885 it was on…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880-1971) 1914 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In July 1914, just prior to the outbreak of World War I, the famous German actress Tilla Durieux…
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) Madame Charpentier et ses enfants (Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children) 1878 Oil on canvas, 153.7 x 190.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this commissioned portrait, as Marcel Proust observed, Renoir gave expression to…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Filles de Catulle Mendès (Daughters of Catulle Mendès) 1888 Oil on canvas, 161.9 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hoping to recapture the success he had achieved with Madame Georges Charpentier and Her…