Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La Rue Saint-Lazare, temps lumineux (Rue Saint-Lazare, bright weather) 1893 Oil on canvas, 73.2 x 60.2 cm Private collection “He watches the flow of life move by, majestic and dazzling. He admires the eternal beauty and the astonishing…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jean-Pierre Hoschedé et Michel Monet au bord de l’Epte (Jean-Pierre Hoschedé and Michel Monet on the Bank of the Epte) c.1887–1890 Oil on canvas, 76 x 96.5 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Monet’s son Michel and stepson Jean-Pierre…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Jardin de l’artiste à Vétheuil (The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil) 1881 Oil on canvas, 151.5 x 121 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A small child stands facing us on a sun-dappled path that runs up the center…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le déjeuner (The Luncheon) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 231.5 x 151 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt Art history would probably have taken a different course if the jury of the Paris Salon had not turned down this painting by Monet…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Portrait de Jeanne Wenz (Portrait of Jeanne Wenz) 1886 Oil on canvas, 80.7 × 59.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this portrait when he was only 22 years old and still an art…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bohémien (The Bohemian) 1861–1862, date of rework: 1867 Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 55.3 x 2.5 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi The pose of this young man with a bent wrist recalls Renaissance painting and endows the work with…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les marionnettes (The puppets) 1775–1778 Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 89.8 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les Enfants luttant (Children Wrestling) 1888 Oil on canvas, 93 x 73 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi Gauguin (1848–1903) discovered Japanese prints in 1887 through Vincent van Gogh. In 1888, for this Breton wrestling match, he adopted the aesthetic of…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme prenant du chocolat (Cup of Chocolate) c.1912 Oil on canvas, 54.1 x 65.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Renoir painted this canvas years after he had moved away from impressionism, when he was living in the rural countryside of…
Butler, Theodore Earl (1861-1936) Suzanne et Lily Butler in Claude Monet’s Garden c.1894–1895 Oil on canvas, 61 x 71 cm Private collection Claude Monet‘s garden in Giverny left an indelible mark on the history of art. Nurturing his willow trees, flowers…