Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Personnages dans un intérieur: Le travail (Figures in an Interior: Work) 1896 Glue-based paint on canvas Petit Palais, Paris Work is one of four panels painted by Vuillard for the apartment of Doctor Henri Vaquez (1860-1936) in Paris. This…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Personnages dans un intérieur: Le choix des livres (Figures in an Interior: Selection of Books) 1896 Glue-based paint on canvas Petit Palais, Paris Selection of Books is one of four panels painted by Vuillard for the apartment of Doctor…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Personnages dans un intérieur: La musique (Figures in an Interior: Music) 1896 Glue-based paint on canvas Petit Palais, Paris Music is one of four panels painted by Vuillard for the apartment of Doctor Henri Vaquez (1860-1936) in Paris. This…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Personnages dans un intérieur: L’intimité (Figures in an Interior: Intimacy) 1896 Glue-based paint on canvas Petit Palais, Paris Intimacy is one of four panels painted by Vuillard for the apartment of Doctor Henri Vaquez (1860-1936) in Paris. This cardiologist,…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Jérôme de La Lande c.1769 Oil on canvas, 72 x 59.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris This work executed circa 1769 by Fragonard, then at the peak of his art, is perhaps part of his famous series of fantastical portraits,…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-portrait in Oriental Costume 1631 Oil on panel, 63 x 56 cm Petit Palais, Paris Rembrandt has left us more self-portraits than any other artist in the world, around eighty (around forty paintings, nearly thirty engravings and seven drawings), not…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Marietta, dite L’odalisque romaine (Marietta, known as The Roman Odalisque) 1843 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 29.3 x 44.2 cm Petit Palais, Paris Marietta posed for Corot in the studio of Achille Benouville during the painter’s third…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Sommeil (The Sleep) 1866 Oil on canvas, 135 x 200 cm Petit Palais, Paris Courbet, who paved the way for Realism in the mid-19th century, remained on the fringes of official art thanks to the support of…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) L’amateur d’estampes (The Print Lover) c.1860 Oil on canvas, 41 x 33.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris The prolific draughtsman Daumier frequently painted for himself, often going back to the same subjects in successive versions. This enthusiast caught up in…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) François 1er reçoit les derniers soupirs de Léonard de Vinci (Francis I receives the last breaths of Leonardo da Vinci) 1818 Oil on canvas, 40 x 50.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris Following his stay in Rome…