Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le balcon (The Balcony) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 170 x 125 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris When Manet painted this piece, scenes of bourgeois life were in vogue. Yet The Balcony went against the conventions of the day. All…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Condesa del Carpio, Marquesa de la Solana (The Countess del Carpio, Marquesa de la Solana) c.1794–1795 Oil on canvas, 181 x 122 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Born on May 23, 1757 in Bilbao, María Rita Barrenechea y…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Mariana Waldstein, novena Marquesa de Santa Cruz 1797–1799 Oil on canvas, 142 x 97 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Waldstein, Mariana (1763-1808)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Hush! 1875 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 112.2 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Modern life was the central theme of Tissot‘s art, with a focus on bourgeois social behaviour. His genre pieces typically dwelt on social nicety, flattering…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le pont du HMS Calcutta, Portsmouth (Gallery of HMS Calcutta) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 91.8 cm Tate Britain, London Tissot often painted a man with two women in order to explore the subtle nuances of flirtation…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte au bouquet (Still Life with Bouquet) 1871 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 59.1 × 3.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston “Painting is done to decorate walls. So it should be as rich as possible. For me…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Chemin de fer (The Railway, Gare Saint-Lazare) 1873 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 111.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Edouard Manet offers an intriguing study in contrasts and ambiguity in The Railway, starting with the relationship between…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841–1919) La loge (The Theater Box) 1874 Oil on canvas, 80 x 63.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Pierre-Auguste Renoir showed La Loge (The Theatre Box) at the first Impressionist group exhibition in Paris in 1874. The painting was designed make an impact there.…