Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’exécution de Maximilien (The Execution of Maximilian) c.1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 193 x 284 cm National Gallery, London Photograph of the execution of Maximilian (right) Miramón (center) and Mejía (left). Photograph of the Mexican firing squad that executed Emperor…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’exécution de l’empereur Maximilien (The Execution of Emperor Maximilian) 1867 Oil on canvas, 195.9 x 259.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1867, Maximilian, emperor of Mexico, was executed with two of his generals—Miguel Miramón and Tomás Mejía—by…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’exécution de l’empereur Maximilien (The Execution of Emperor Maximilian) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 252 x 302 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim Photograph of the execution of Maximilian (right) Miramón (center) and Mejía (left). Photograph of the Mexican firing squad that…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La corrida (Bullfight) 1865–1866 Oil on canvas, 48 × 60.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Édouard Manet’s trip to Spain in the fall of 1865 lasted only about 10 days, though it had a profound impact on…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Les Courses à Longchamp (The Races at Longchamp) 1866 Oil on canvas, 44 × 84.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago With a characteristic focus on the pleasures of modern life, Édouard Manet depicted this scene of the…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Marée basse à Pourville, près de Dieppe (Low Tide at Pourville, near Dieppe) 1882 Oil on fabric, 59.9 x 81.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This is one of several views Monet painted of the cliffs and…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Rue de la Bavole, Honfleur c.1864 Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 61 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Dating from the beginning of Monet‘s career, this view of a street in the old port of Honfleur is a…
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Portrait of Friedericke Maria Beer 1916 Oil on canvas, 168 x 130 cm Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Friederike Maria Beer-Monti and Gustav Klimt, Summer 1916 in Weißenbach am Attersee. See also: • Beer, Friedericke Maria (1891-1980)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Sur le Grand Canal, Venise (Grand Canal, Venice) 1881 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston When Renoir’s Venetian pictures were first exhibited, one critic called them, “the most outrageous series of ferocious…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Promenade (The Walk) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 170.2 x 108.3 cm The Frick Collection, New York A young woman shepherds a pair of identically dressed little sisters along the path of a well-maintained public park. All three…