Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Proposition embarrassante (Embarrasing Proposal) 1715–1716 Oil on canvas, 65 × 84.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Watteau was the first 18th-century French artist to create something totally new in his work, something previously unknown, in despite of the…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Acteurs de la Comedie-Francaise (Actors of the Comédie-Française) 1711–1712 Oil on panel, 20 × 25 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Watteau was very fond of the play Les trois cousines (The Three Cousins) by Florent Carton, known as Dancourt,…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) A Caricature Group (Sir Charles Turner, Mr. Cook, Mr. John Woodyeare, and Rev. Dr. William Drake) c.1751 Oil on canvas, 62.9 x 48.3 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Les Grandes Baigneuses (Bathers) c.1894–1905 Oil on canvas, 127.2 x 196.1 cm National Gallery, London Around 200 of Cézanne’s works depict male and female nude bathers, either singly or in groups, in a landscape. The earliest dates from…
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Réunion à la campagne, Apollinaire et ses amis (Meeting in the countryside, Apollinaire and his friends) 1909 Oil on canvas, 130 x 194 cm Musée Picasso, Paris See also: • Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) | Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) | Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Groupe de danseuses (Group of Dancers) c.1895–1897 Pastel on panel, 32.39 × 40.96 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This enigmatic drawing on panel has never before been published. The stamps and numbers on the verso indicate…
English title: Conversation Piece Director: Luchino Visconti Producer: Giovanni Bertolucci Screenplay: Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti Genre: Drama Country: Italia Language: English, Italian Studio: Rusconi Film Release date: 1974 Running time: 121 minutes Burt Lancaster (1913-1994) as The…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jacques, Suzanne, Blanche et Germaine Hoschedé c.1880 Pastel, 97 cm Private collection See also: • Hoschedé, Germaine (1873-1968) | Hoschedé, Jacques (1869-1941) | Hoschedé Butler, Suzanne (1863-1899) | Hoschedé Monet, Blanche (1865-1947)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Charpentier et ses enfants (Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children) 1878 Oil on canvas, 153.7 x 190.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this commissioned portrait, as Marcel Proust observed, Renoir gave expression to…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les grandes baigneuses (The Large Bathers) 1901–1902 Oil on canvas Musée Renoir, Cagnes-sur-Mer