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Corot, la palette à la main (c.1835)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Autoportrait ou Corot, la palette à la main (Self Portrait or Corot, palette in hand) c.1835 Oil on canvas, 33 × 25 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Uffizi asked Corot for a self-portrait in 1872. Shortly after…

Mademoiselle Sicot (1865)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Mademoiselle Sicot 1865 Oil on canvas, 116 x 89.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the knees up, a woman with pale, pink skin and cinnamon-brown hair sits with her hands in her lap…

La Source (1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Source (The Source) 1875 Oil on canvas, 131 x 77.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia The model here is Henriette Henriot, an actress who posed frequently for Renoir during his impressionist years. Renoir captures her in a…

La Rêverie (1877)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Rêverie, ou Portrait de l’actrice Jeanne Samary (Daydreaming or Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary) 1877 Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow Female images occupy a special place in Renoir‘s work, becoming…

A la Bastille, Jeanne Wenz (1888)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) A la Bastille, Jeanne Wenz (At the Bastille, Jeanne Wenz) 1888 Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 49.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Wenz, Jeanne

Jeune femme tressant ses cheveux (1876)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme tressant ses cheveux (Young Woman Braiding Her Hair) 1876 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 46 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with peachy skin shaded with ice blue and pale, mint green…

Jeune femme espagnole avec guitare (1898)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme espagnole avec guitare (Young Spanish Woman with Guitar) 1898 Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 65.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with pale, peachy skin and flushed cheeks sits facing our right…