Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Blonde tressant ses cheveux (Blonde Braiding Her Hair) 1886 Oil on canvas, 65.41 x 54.29 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas After an inspirational trip to Italy in the early 1880s where he admired Classical models, Pierre-Auguste Renoir renewed…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Espagnole à la croix noire (Spanish Woman Wearing a Black Cross) 1865 Oil on canvas, 60.96 x 46.99 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme cousant (Young Woman Sewing) 1879 Oil on canvas, 61.4 × 50.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The model for this elegant painting of a French bourgeois woman sewing may be Aline Charigot, whom Pierre-Auguste Renoir would…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Acrobates au cirque Fernando (Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Oil on canvas, 131.2 × 99.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Chahut 1889–1890 Oil on canvas, 170 x 141 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Cancan The women and men in this painting are enthusiastically dancing the chahut, or cancan, a risqué dance for that period, whereby the women lift their…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La salle à manger, Opus 152 (The Dining Room, Opus 152) 1886–1887 Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 116.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Meeting The young Signac begins his painting career as an impressionist. That changes in 1884 when…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Honoré de Balzac 1891 Terracotta, 23.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1891, the Société des Gens de Lettres commissioned Rodin to create a monument to Balzac, who had died in 1850, for the Palais-Royal in…