Tag: flower

Portrait de Félix Fénéon (1890)

Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Portrait de Félix Fénéon (Portrait of Félix Fénéon) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 92.5 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York See also: • Fénéon, Félix (1861-1944)

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Garçon dans les fleurs, Jacques Hoschedé (1876)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Garçon dans les fleurs, Jacques Hoschedé (Boy in Flowers, Jacques Hoschedé) 1876 Oil on canvas, 60 x 97 cm National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo During the summer of 1876 Manet visited the small village of Montgeron in…

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Jeune femme cousant (1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme cousant (Young Woman Sewing) 1879 Oil on canvas, 61.4 × 50.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The model for this elegant painting of a French bourgeois woman sewing may be Aline Charigot, whom Pierre-Auguste Renoir would…

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Chrysanthèmes (1881-1882)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Chrysanthèmes (Chrysanthemums) 1881–1882 Oil on canvas, 54.8 × 65.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “I just let my brain rest when I paint flowers,” Pierre-Auguste Renoir remarked. “I don’t experience the same tension as I do when confronted…

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Madame Renoir au chien (1880)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Renoir au chien (Madame Renoir with a Dog) 1880 Oil on canvas, 32 x 41 cm Private collection See also: • Charigot, Aline (1859-1915)

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Le Chahut (1889-1890)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Chahut 1889–1890 Oil on canvas, 170 x 141 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Cancan The women and men in this painting are enthusiastically dancing the chahut, or cancan, a risqué dance for that period, whereby the women lift their…

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