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Pivoines (1931)

Hoschedé Monet, Blanche (1865-1947) Pivoines (Peonies) 1931 Oil on canvas, 87.8 x 72.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Chrysanthèmes au jardin du Petit-Gennevilliers (1893)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Chrysanthèmes au jardin du Petit-Gennevilliers (Chrysanthemums in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers) 1893 Oil on canvas, 99.4 × 61.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Although Caillebotte was a lifelong gardener, his interest in floral subjects did not…

A Basket of Flowers (1620s)

Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) A Basket of Flowers probably 1620s Oil on wood, 47 x 68.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan Brueghel the Younger was part of an artistic dynasty that transformed Flemish landscape, genre, and still-life…

Femme tahitienne (c.1894)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femme tahitienne (Tahitian Woman) c.1894 Charcoal and pastel on paper, mounted on millboard, 54.9 x 49.5 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In 1890 Paul Gauguin wrote of his attraction to the French colony of Tahiti in a manner…

Nature morte aux fraises (1914)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte aux fraises (Still Life with Strawberries) 1914 Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 44.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Still-life paintings often suggest a human presence, implying the viewer’s bodily relationship to a tabletop and investing inanimate…

L’Ambitieuse (1883-1885)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman) 1883–1885 Oil on canvas, 142.24 x 101.6 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman), also referred to as The Reception, belongs to a series of fifteen large paintings that James Tissot executed between…

Les cerises (1871)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Les cerises (The Cherry Picker) 1871 Oil on canvas, 130.49 x 88.27 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore