Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Cirque (The Circus) 1891 Oil on canvas, 186 x 152 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Coming after Parade and Cancan, Circus was the third panel in a series by Seurat on the popular attractions of the modern city…
Le Cirque (1891)
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Amazone (1820)
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Amazone (Horsewoman) 1820 or later Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Géricault studied horses extensively throughout his life, and his stay in England in 1820–21 inspired a group of works representing elegant…
Una reina del circo (c.1815)
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Una reina del circo (A Circus Queen) c.1815 Etching, 30.3 x 44.5 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Ces Dames des chars (1883-1885)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Ces Dames des chars (Ladies of the Chariots) 1883–1885 Oil on canvas, 146.1 x 100.7 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
L’Amazone (1923)
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) L’Amazone (The Amazon) 1923 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 65.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
L’Amazone (c.1875-1876)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Amazone (The Equestrienne) c.1875–1876 Watercolor on paper, 20.8 x 27 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In the mid-nineteenth century, the term amazone mockingly referred to fashionable Parisian women who preferred to ride on horseback instead of inside a…
Au Cirque Fernando: L’Écuyère (1887-1888)
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Au Cirque Fernando: L’Écuyère (At the Cirque Fernando: The Horsewoman) 1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 161.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This work, set at a circus, captures the tense moment in which a female…
L’Amazone (c.1882)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Amazone (The Horsewoman) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 73 x 52 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid First Manet then the Impressionists followed the road paved by Courbet in representing reality in painting and went even further by initiating new research…
L’Amazone (c.1855-1859)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Amazone (Woman in a Riding Habit) c.1855–1859 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 89.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting of a horsewoman (in French, amazone) was first observed in Courbet’s studio in the late…