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La Jeune bonne (c.1918)

Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) La Jeune bonne (The Servant Girl) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 60.96 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Between 1915 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani executed many portraits in a style characterized by sparse settings and figures rendered…

La soeur de l’artiste à la fenêtre (1869)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La soeur de l’artiste à la fenêtre (The Artist’s Sister at a Window) 1869 Oil on canvas, 54.8 x 46.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with pale peach skin and light brown hair sits…

La présentation de Jésus au Temple (1886-1894)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) La présentation de Jésus au Temple (The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1886–1894 Watercolor on paper, 22.2 x 15.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Forty days after the birth of Jesus, the Holy Family travels to Jerusalem…

Venetian Bead Stringers (1880 or 1882)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Venetian Bead Stringers 1880 or 1882 Oil on canvas, 66.99 x 78.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo John Singer Sargent was fond of making studies in watercolor or oil and often sketched the everyday scenes or…

I am half sick of shadows (1915)

Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) ‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said The Lady of Shalott (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott, Part II) 1915 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 73.7 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)

Les Persiennes (1919)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Les Persiennes (The Venetian Blinds) 1919 Oil on canvas, 130 × 89 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Henri Matisse painted this canvas in his hotel room in Nice, in the South of France, where he spent his winters beginning…

Intérieur à Nice (1919-1920)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur à Nice (Interior at Nice) 1919–1920 Oil on canvas, 131.5 × 90.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Beginning in 1917, Henri Matisse spent most winters in Nice, on the Mediterranean coast. He often stayed at the…