Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Camille Monet c.1873 Oil on canvas, 58 x 48.5 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Pierre Auguste Renoir is certainly the artist who most often portrayed Claude Monet and his wife Camille Doncieux. The ten or so paintings he dedicated…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Mademoiselle Georgette Charpentier assise (Mlle Georgette Charpentier seated) 1876 Oil on canvas, 97.8 x 70.8 cm Artizon Museum, Tokyo Renoir, an Impressionist, painted landscapes en plein air, as did his friend Monet. He also displayed an interest, early on,…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla 1873 Oil on canvas, 65.2 × 50.1 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington Mary Cassatt spent a few months in Spain in the early 1870s. She went first to Madrid, where she copied…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Tanagra (The Builders, New York) 1918 Oil on canvas, 149.2 x 149 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington In Tanagra (The Builders, New York), Childe Hassam painted an ambivalent image of modern life. At the turn of the twentieth…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Portrait d’Alice Derain (Portrait of Alice Derain) 1920–1921 Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 73.5 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris Derain met Alice Géry, then married to the young mathematician and Bergson enthusiast Maurice Princet, in the autumn of…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) A Souvenir of Velazquez 1868 Oil on canvas, 102.7 x 82.4 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London The expressionistic brushwork and broad colouring of Millais‘s diploma work contrasts with the restrained naturalism of his earlier Pre-Raphaelite paintings. This…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Eugène Manet 1874 Oil on paper laid down on board, 63 × 79.5 cm Private collection See also: • Eugène Manet (1833-1892)
Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571) La nymphe de Fontainebleau (The Nymph of Fontainebleau) 1542–1543 Bronze, 205 x 409 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Commissioned by François I and executed in 1542–1543, in the workshop of the Hôtel de Nesle in Paris, with the assistance…
Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571) Perseo con la testa di Medusa (Perseus with the Head of Medusa) 1545–1554 Bronze, h. 519 cm Piazza della Signoria, Firenze Compare: Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Perseo con la testa della Medusa 1804–1806 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York …
Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571) Saliera (Salt Cellar) 1540–1543 Gold, enamel, ebony, ivory, 28.5 × 21.5 × 26.3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The only extant work in gold by this Florentine artist already famous during his lifetime, Cellini’s masterpiece is far more than a…