Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Georges Clemenceau (Portrait of Georges Clemenceau) 1879–1880 Oil on canvas, 115.9 x 88.2 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Shortly after he became prime minister of France in 1906, Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) ordered Manet’s controversial painting…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Débâcle, temps gris (The Break-Up of the Ice, Bad Weather) 1880 Oil on canvas, 68 x 90 cm Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La débâcle près de Vétheuil 1880 Musée du Louvre, Paris Monet,…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Marché aux poissons, Dieppe, temps gris, matin (The Fish Market, Dieppe: Grey Weather, Morning) 1902 Oil on canvas, 65.41 × 80.96 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Starting in the 1890s, Pissarro turned increasingly toward the depiction of…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Édouard Manet c.1873 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 78.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet undertook only six portraits of his wife, the Dutch pianist Suzanne Leenhoff, in the years after their marriage in…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Cosimo I de’ Medici in armatura (Cosimo I de’ Medici in armour) c.1545 Oil on poplar panel, 86 x 66.8 x 3.5 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Bronzino was the leading painter in mid 16th-century…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Bia de’ Medici (Portrait of Bia de’ Medici) c.1542–1545 Oil on panel, 63.3 x 48 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze In the late 19th century, this painting was already identified as a portrait of the “natural…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Les Amants (The Lovers) 1928 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this unsettling image—the first in a series of four variations of Les Amants that Magritte painted in 1928—the…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter c.1872 Oil on canvas, 74.9 x 53.3 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit In this painting, Whistler explores problems in technique and composition, as well as his own…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le pont à Argenteuil un jour gris (Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 61 x 80.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across a glimmering river toward docks, about a…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La Plage à Deauville (The Beach at Deauville) 1864 Oil on panel, 34.7 x 26 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland During the 1860s, Boudin executed many paintings and watercolors representing well-to-do tourists and vacationers enjoying seaside…