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Le balcon (1868-1869)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le balcon (The Balcony) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 170 x 125 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris When Manet painted this piece, scenes of bourgeois life were in vogue. Yet The Balcony went against the conventions of the day. All…

Madame Manet dans le Jardin de Bellevue (1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Manet dans le Jardin de Bellevue (Madame Manet in the Garden at Bellevue) 1880 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 60.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite the seemingly rapid brushwork and the summary treatment of detail,…

Le Madras Rouge (1907)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Madras Rouge (Red Madras Headdress) 1907 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Image © 2013 The Barnes Foundation ©2011 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York This striking portrait represents Amelie…

Femme au chapeau (1905)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat) 1905 Oil on canvas, 80.65 x 59.69 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco See also: • Matisse-Parayre, Amélie Noellie (1872-1958)

Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) 1876 Oil on canvas, 131.5 x 176.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris From 1879 to 1894, in the Gustave Caillebotte collection. This painting is doubtless Renoir‘s most…

Autoportrait (1876)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1876 Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 57.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In the first flush of major success as an artist, Renoir depicts himself in front of an easel. By 1876, he had participated in the…

Autoportrait (1899)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1899 Oil on canvas, 41.4 x 33.7 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Renoir presents himself in this self-portrait as a mature and confident man. He was in his late fifties and well-established as an artist; the flowered…