Tag: dress

Personnages cueillant des fleurs (1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Personnages cueillant des fleurs (Picking Flowers) 1875 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 65.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A light-skinned man and woman stand looking at each other, surrounded by blooming flowers and lush green trees…

Tilla Durieux (1914)

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…

Madame Charpentier et ses enfants (1878)

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…

Les Filles de Catulle Mendès (1888)

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…

Dans la prairie (1888-1892)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Dans la prairie (In the Meadow) 1888–1892 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1888 and 1892 Renoir painted a number of works in which the same pair of girls—the…

The Holy Family (1633-1635)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Holy Family c.1633–1635 Oil on canvas, 183.5 x 123 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Rembrandt presents this touching gathering of the Holy Family in the carpenter’s workshop in a monumental genre painting with almost life-sized figures that has…

The Adoration of the Shepherds (1646)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Adoration of the Shepherds 1646 Oil on canvas, 97 x 71.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The…

Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume (1635)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume 1635 Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 97.5 cm National Gallery, London Saskia van Uylenburgh, the daughter of a burgomaster of Leeuwarden in Friesland, was 23 years old and had been married to…