Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Toilette de Vénus (The Toilette of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 108.3 x 85.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boucher executed this painting for Madame de Pompadour, the powerful, official mistress of Louis XV and…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Noce juive, d’après Delacroix (The Jewish Wedding, after Eugène Delacroix) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 83.3 x 64.1 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Noce juive dans le Maroc 1839 Musée du Louvre, Paris See…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te Faaturuma (The Brooding Woman) 1891 Oil on canvas, 91.1 x 68.7 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Virgin and Child with Saints Zacharias, Elizabeth and John the Baptist c.1620 Oil on canvas, 114 x 153 cm National Gallery, London We are watching an intimate family moment, apparently unnoticed. Two children are being introduced – they…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Mother Combing Her Child’s Hair c.1901 Pastel on gray paper, 64.1 x 80.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Lecteur (The Reader) 1861 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 81.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Edouard Manet represented his elderly friend, the painter Joseph Gall, absorbed in reading a large book. The ledge in the…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Les deux soeurs (The Two Sisters) 1859 Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 130.5 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Augustine Roulin 1888 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’, Winterthur Compare: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Madame Roulin 1888 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis See also: • Arles (France) | Roulin, Augustine (1851-1930)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur à Nice (Interior at Nice) c.1919 Oil on canvas, 66.7 x 54.9 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Compare: Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur à Nice 1919–1920 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Nice (France)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Chaim Soutine 1917 Oil on canvas, 91.7 x 59.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Born in 1884 to an aristocratic family in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani settled in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris in 1906 and began…