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Coin d’un café-concert (1878-1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Coin d’un café-concert (Corner of a Café-Concert) probably 1878–1880 Oil on canvas, 97.1 x 77.5 cm National Gallery, London In the middle of the nineteenth century the café-concert became extremely popular in France, and Parisian establishments such as the…

La Femme au chat (c.1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Femme au chat (Woman with a Cat) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm Tate Britain, London See also: • Manet, Suzanne (1830-1906)

Méphistophélès chez Marthe (19th century)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Méphistophélès chez Marthe (Mephistopheles at Martha’s House, from Goethe’s Faust) 19th Century Lithograph on paper, 45.6 x 29.6 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester See also: • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

La Toilette de Vénus (1751)

Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Toilette de Vénus (The Toilette of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 108.3 x 85.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boucher executed this painting for Madame de Pompadour, the powerful, official mistress of Louis XV and…

Acteurs de la Comedie-Francaise (1711-1712)

Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Acteurs de la Comedie-Francaise (Actors of the Comédie-Française) 1711–1712 Oil on panel, 20 × 25 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Watteau was very fond of the play Les trois cousines (The Three Cousins) by Florent Carton, known as Dancourt,…