Tag: flower

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…

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…

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)

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…

Réunion à la campagne (1909)

Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Réunion à la campagne, Apollinaire et ses amis (Meeting in the countryside, Apollinaire and his friends) 1909 Oil on canvas, 130 x 194 cm Musée Picasso, Paris See also: • Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) | Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) | Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)