Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) L’Implorante (The Implorer) modeled 1898, cast c.1905 Bronze, 27.9 × 36.8 × 21.3 cm, 5.3 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Camille Claudel, Rodin’s most brilliant student, was consumed by her twelve-year affair with the sculptor. In…
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1928 Oil on cardboard, 60 x 80.48 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Suzanne Valadon posed as a model for the artists Renoir, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec before she began painting herself in 1893.…
Blake, William (1757-1827) God Judging Adam c.1795 Relief etching, printed in color and finished with pen and ink and watercolor, 42.5 x 52.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A nude and aged Adam, newly aware of his own nakedness and…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Jeunes filles de Sparte (Young Women of Sparta) 1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 74.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Along with 42.196, this painting of a pale, contemplative young woman dressed in garments that conjure past times…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme nue dans un paysage (Female Nude in a Landscape) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La toilette 1906 Oil on canvas, 151.13 x 99.06 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1904, Pablo Picasso moved from his home in Spain to the bohemian Paris neighborhood of Montparnasse, beginning his lifelong relationship with the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Petit nu bleu (Little Blue Nude) c.1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 38.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During the late 1870s Pierre-Auguste Renoir began applying Impressionist theory to the rendering of the human figure—a process that…
Guercino (1591-1666) Studio per Il Martirio di San Bartolomeo (Study for “The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew”) c.1635–1636 Red chalk on cream laid paper, 37.6 x 28.5 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vénus victorieuse (Venus Victorious) 1914 Bronze, 182.6 x 81.3 x 111.1 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Venus Victrix 1914–1916 Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Venus Victrix 1914–1916 Gum-lacquered patina plaster, 192 x 134 x 73 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Vénus victorieuse 1914 Clark Art Institute, Williamstown