Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1863 Oil on panel, 25.4 x 46.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)
Modotti, Tina (1896-1942) En las trincheras (Diego Rivera’s Fresco “In the Trenches,” Ministry of Education, Mexico City) 1924–1928 Gelatin silver print with applied color, 23.9 x 18.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1924 and 1928 Modotti made several hundred…
Gros, Antoine-Jean (1771-1835) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) c.1790 Oil on canvas, 27.3 × 21.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gros trained with Jacques Louis David, leader of the most prominent atelier in Paris during a tumultuous period marked by Revolution and Empire.…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Repas comique, Banquet des affamés (Comical Repast, Banquet of the Starved) c.1917–1918 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 145.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The current title of this painting reflects the two names it was given…
Manet, Julie (1878-1966) Femme assise au Bois de Boulogne (Seated woman in the Bois de Boulogne) 1893–1894 Watercolor on paper, 23 x 36 cm British Museum, London The watercolour was done by Julie Manet as a teenager at the same time…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le clown musical (The Clown) 1868 Oil on canvas, 193.5 x 130 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Commission Auguste Renoir made this large painting on commission for the owner of the café of Cirque d’Hiver, the winter circus in Paris.…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Nice, souvenir de la Promenade des Anglais (Nice, Memories of the Promenade des Anglais) 1880 Oil on canvas, 38.5 x 50 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Nice (France)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Portrait of Theodore Duret (Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black) 1883 Oil on canvas, 193.4 x 90.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Theodore Duret (1838–1927), heir to a firm of Cognac dealers, was a…