Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le treillis (The Trellis) 1862 Oil on canvas, 109.9 × 135.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Summer flowers are the heart of this painting. Full-blown, they surge across the surface, engulfing the young woman whose dress is even…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Portrait de Madame de Pompadour (Portrait of Madame Pompadour) 1758 Oil on canvas, 57.8 × 52.4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London François Boucher (1703-1770) was born in Paris and probably received his first artistic training from his father…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Une couturière (A Seamstress) 1892 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 53.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis The subject of a woman sewing comes directly from Edouard Vuillard‘s own experience in his mother’s dressmaking shop where, as a…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les meules de foin (The Haystacks) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73.3 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In the 1880s, Paul Gauguin made several extended trips to Brittany in western France, attracted by the region’s remoteness and…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Bords de la Seine à Argenteuil (Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil) 1874 Oil on canvas, 62.3 x 103 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This work is one of Édouard Manet’s most vivid experiments in painting outdoors, inspired…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Madame Jean Renoir (Catherine Hessling) c.1923 Oil on canvas, 90.4 x 75.2 cm National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo This painting depicts the actress Catherine Hessling, wife of the film director Jean Renoir. Catherine Hessling was her stage name,…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Eugène Manet à l’Ile de Wight (Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight) 1875 Oil on canvas, 38 × 46 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris On December 22, 1874, Berthe Morisot married Eugène Manet at the Church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Hyde Park, London c.1871 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 74 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • London (England)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Rue de village (Village Street) 1909–1910 Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 35.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Seine à Argenteuil (The Seine at Argenteuil) 1888 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia In 1888, Renoir spent a leisurely as well as productive summer at the home of the impressionist artist and patron…