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) Alfred Sisley 1876 Oil on canvas, 66.2 × 54.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899)
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…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Marguerite 1906–1907 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 54 x 2 cm Musée Picasso, Paris See also: • Matisse, Marguerite (1894-1982)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto del conte Antonio di Porcia e Brugnera (Portrait of Count Antonio Porcia and Brugnera) 1535–1540 Oil on canvas, 115 x 93 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting, signed on the windowsill, portrays the Friulian nobleman Antonio di…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1565 Oil on canvas, 115 x 85 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano This painting, with its chequered history of attributions, can be dated c. 1565 thanks to a comparison…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Ritratto del pittore Moisè Kisling (Portrait of the Painter Moïse Kisling) 1915 Oil on canvas, 37 x 29 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting originally belonged to Paul Guillaume, art critic, dealer and discoverer of Modigliani,…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) L’Enfant gras (The Fat Child) 1915 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 37.5 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano “Today critics are lavish with their praise and confer genius and beauty on every street corner […]. I am almost…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Madonna dei Cherubini, Madonna con il Bambino e un coro di cherubini (Madonna of Cherubs, Madonna and Child with a Choir of Cherubs) 1485–1490 Tempera on panel, 88 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The panel,…