Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Liseuse (Young Girl Reading) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.1 x 64.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the lap up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a goldenrod-yellow dress, sits reading a small book,…
Abbéma, Louise (1853-1927) Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt (Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt) 1921 Oil on canvas, 87 x 120 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) En plein soleil (In Full Sunlight) c.1881 Oil on wood, 24.8 x 35.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cascading sunlight illuminates the colorful open parasol and beribboned hats of the group lounging on the grass. This…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La Robe Rose (The Pink Dress) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable portraitist Jacques-Emile Blanche witnessed this painting being made at the Villa Fodor, the family home of…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) La Sacra Famiglia con Santa Maria Maddalena (The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen) c.1495–1500 Distemper on canvas, 57.2 x 45.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The composition of this late picture by Mantegna was inspired…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Jeunes filles de Sparte (Young Women of Sparta) 1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 74.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Along with 42.196, this painting of a pale, contemplative young woman dressed in garments that conjure past times…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de Madame Monet (Portrait of Madame Monet) c.1874 Oil on canvas, 61.7 x 50.3 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La Convalescente (The Convalescent) 1872 Oil on wood, 37.5 x 45.7 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nevermore 1897 Oil paint on canvas, 60.5 x 116 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London See also: • Tahiti (French Polynesia)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1923–1924 Oil on canvas, 60 x 92 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Matisse painted this work in Nice, a city in the South of France that he visited frequently in the 1920s. The canvas is…