Derain, André (1880-1954) Portrait d’une jeune fille en noir (Portrait of a Girl in Black) 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.3 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Under the influence of Cézanne, but also due to his friendship with Picasso and…
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”…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Le thé (The Tea) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 92.07 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cassatt’s paintings often document the social interactions of well-to-do women like herself. The activities they depict—tea drinking, going to the…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Child in a Straw Hat c.1886 Oil on canvas, 65.3 x 49.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the waist up, a young girl wearing a slate-gray dress and straw hat stands with her hands…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Loge c.1878–1880 Oil on canvas, 79.8 x 63.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the knees up, two young women with pale, peachy skin wearing white gowns sit close together and almost fill this…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Little Girl in a Blue Armchair 1878 Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 129.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A small brown dog and a pale-skinned little girl wearing a white dress sit in matching celestial-blue armchairs…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Virgen Niña (The Young Virgin) c.1632–1633 Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 94 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York According to medieval legend, as a girl the Virgin Mary lived in the Temple in Jerusalem, where…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane donna (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1475–1480 Oil on poplar, 55.4 x 43 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin In the past, this portrait was considered to be that of Simonetta Vespucci, venerated by Giuliano de’ Medici, who died…