Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Corniche près de Monaco (La Corniche near Monaco) 1884 Oil on canvas, 75 x 94 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam In Monet’s time La Corniche was a narrow mountain track; nowadays, it is the main road between Nice and…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Sortie du conservatoire (Leaving the Conservatory) 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 187.5 x 117.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Renoir uses subtle body language to convey the flirtatious exchanges among a group of young Parisians gathered outside a music…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) L’Homme à femmes (The Ladies’ Man) 1890 Oil on panel, 25 x 16 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia This small oil painting was a study for the cover of L’homme à femmes, a satirical novel by Victor Joze published…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Arlésiennes (Mistral) 1888 Oil on jute canvas, 73 × 92 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago One of seventeen canvases that Paul Gauguin completed during a brief and tumultuous visit with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, this powerful…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Au Cirque Fernando: L’Écuyère (At the Cirque Fernando: The Horsewoman) 1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 161.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This work, set at a circus, captures the tense moment in which a female…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish 1837–1838 Oil on canvas, 174.5 × 224.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In this massive painting, celebrated British landscape artist Joseph Mallord William Turner pursued a theme of…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Ballet à l’Opéra de Paris (Ballet at the Paris Opéra) 1877 Pastel over monotype on cream laid paper, 35.2 × 70.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago One of the nineteenth century’s most innovative artists, Edgar Degas often…