Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Autoportrait (Self-portrait) 1865–1866 Oil on canvas, 108.9 x 71.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Frédéric Bazille was in his mid-20s when he executed this startlingly direct self-portrait. Depicted against a dark background with only his palette and brushes…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) La Toilette 1870 Oil on canvas, 130 x 128 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Inspired by the orientalist imagination as well as the biblical universe, the painting depicts a modern Bathsheba being prepared by two servants for nuptial union. This…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Scène d’été / Les Baigneurs (Summer Scene / Bathers) 1869 Oil on canvas, 160 x 160.7 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge When this painting was first exhibited at the Salon of 1870, critic and artist Zacharie Astruc wrote of Bazille,…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Portrait de Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1867 Oil on canvas, 61.2 x 50 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nini dans le jardin (Nini in the Garden) 1876 Oil on canvas, 61.9 x 50.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir‘s model, Nini Lopez, sits in the large garden adjacent to the artist’s studio at 12 rue…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Frédéric Bazille peignant le héron (Frédéric Bazille painting the heron) 1867 Oil on canvas, 105 x 75.5 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Deposited by the Musée d’Orsay, 2006 (inv. D2006.3.5) Beyond being a simple portrait, this painting conceals the presence…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Romaine Lacaux 1864 Oil on fabric, 81.3 x 65 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This painting may be Renoir‘s earliest signed canvas. Its sensitive display of color and light communicates an ideal of delicate, youthful beauty. The luminous…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Fiancés, dit Le Ménage Sisley (A Couple) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 105 x 75 cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne Probably we shall never establish beyond doubt the identity of the lady depicted in the painting. For a long…
Montañés y Pérez, Bernardino (1825-1893) Fernando el Católico c.1848 Oil on canvas, 225 x 141 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Ferdinand II of Aragon, called the Catholic (1452-1516). The Chronological Series of the Kings of Spain was a museum project planned…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Henriot en costume (Madame Henriot in Costume) c.1875–1877 Oil on canvas, 161 x 105 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus See also: • Henriot, Henriette (1857-1944)