Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Homme à la toque (Man in a Toque, Self-Portrait) c.1875–1877 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 38.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
L’Homme à la toque (1875-1877)
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Poèmes Barbares (1896)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…
Piazza San Marco, Venezia (1730-1734)
Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco, Venezia (Piazza San Marco, Venice) c.1730–1734 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 118.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Canaletto, celebrated for his views of Venice (vedute), depicts the city’s principal square of San Marco, which was…
Aux Courses, Le Départ (c.1860-1862)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux Courses, Le Départ (At the Races: The Start) c.1860–1862 Oil on canvas, 33 x 47 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Degas often depicted horse racing, producing forty-five oil paintings featuring the subject. This early work, with…
La répétition (c.1873-1878)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La répétition (The Rehearsal) c.1873–1878 Oil on canvas, 47.2 x 61.5 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA This is one of Degas’s earliest paintings of dancers, a subject which he depicted in many media throughout his career. A close…
Madame Pierre Henri Renoir (1870)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Pierre Henri Renoir 1870 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA This is one of two pendant portraits that Renoir painted of his elder brother, Pierre Henri, and his wife, Blanche-Marie Blanc…
Victor Chocquet (c.1875)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Victor Chocquet c.1875 Oil on canvas, 53.02 x 43.5 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA An employee at the Ministry of Finance, Victor Chocquet (1821–1891) met Degas in 1875, and by the second impressionist exhibition, in 1876, had…
Chez la modiste (1878)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1878 Oil on canvas, 32.9 x 24.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Nature morte aux roses (c.1866)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte aux roses (Still Life with Roses) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 74.9 x 55.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Baigneuse assise (c.1883-1884)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baigneuse assise (Seated Bather) c.1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 119.7 x 93 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Following a trip to Italy in 1881–82 to study the masterpieces of ancient Roman and Renaissance painting, Renoir embarked on one…