Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Fenêtre ouverte, Collioure (Open Window, Collioure) 1905 Oil on canvas, 55.25 × 46.04 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Matisse‘s Open Window, Collioure is an icon of early modernism. A small but explosive work, it is celebrated…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille endormie au chat (Sleeping Girl with a cat) 1880 Oil on canvas, 120.3 x 91.9 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown A young woman dozes in a chair, her striped stockings and plain skirt suggesting her humble background.…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (Two Sisters, On the Terrace) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 × 80.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “He loves everything that is joyous, brilliant, and consoling in life,” an anonymous interviewer once…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) c.1889 Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 46.36 cm Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano 1892 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) 1892 Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 86.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In late 1891 or early 1892 Renoir was invited by the French government to execute a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) 1892 Oil on canvas, 116 x 90 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris In the early 1890s, friends and admirers of Renoir took exception to the fact that the French State had…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) 1892 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg When the Minister of Fine Arts of France, Henri Roujon, consented to have a Renoir permanently displayed in…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Anunciación (Annunciation) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 183 x 225 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Archangel Gabriel has descended from the heavens and kneels before Mary to announce the birth of Christ. The Angel holds some white…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl 1861–1863, 1872 Oil on canvas, 213 x 107.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington When Whistler submitted The White Girl to the Paris Salon in 1863, the tradition–bound…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Le tre età dell’uomo (The Three Ages of Man) 1512–1514 Oil on canvas, 90 x 150.7 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh This early work depicts the three stages of life: infancy, adulthood and old age. Cupid clambers over the sleeping…