Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Peintre dans son atelier (The Painter and His Model) 1916–1917 Oil on canvas, 146.5 x 97 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris The window in the artist’s studio is both a crossing point and a metaphor for painting.…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait de Madame X (Portrait of Madame X) 1878 Pastel, 63 x 50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier A central figure in Impressionism, Caillebotte trained in 1871 in the very academic studio of Léon Bonnat. While he passed the entrance…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Le peintre Scholderer à côté de son chevalet (The painter Scholderer beside his easel) 1869 Drawing, 21.4 x 29.8 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Scholderer, Otto (1834-1902)
Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) La terrasse de la Villa Brancas (The Terrace of the Villa Brancas) 1876 Etching on laid paper, 25.4 x 35.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Here, two women are seated on a sunny terrace in the lush landscape…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La Famille du peintre (The Painter’s Family) 1926 Oil on canvas, 146.4 × 114.9 cm Tate Britain, London In the mid-1920s de Chirico reworked many of the themes of his pre-war paintings in the light of his…
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 54.6 × 45.7 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Soutine arrived in Paris in 1913 and became a member of the cosmopolitan artistic world of Montparnasse and the group that critics of…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Artists Sketching in the White Mountains 1868 Oil on panel, 24.1 × 40.3 cm Portland Museum of Art, Portland
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) Lady Writing (Back View) s.d. Graphite on cream wove paper, 21.1 × 13.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) L’artiste (The Artist) 1963 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 73.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Raffaello e la figlia del fornaio (Raphael and the Baker’s Daughter) 1846 Oil on canvas, 35.56 x 27.3 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Raphaël et la Fornarina 1814 Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA…