Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) L’Âge mûr (Age of Maturity) 1899 Bronze, 61.5 x 85 cm x 375 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine With The Age of Maturity, Camille Claudel demonstrates her artistic mastery and creativity, now fully mature. The artist addresses the passage…
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) L’Abandon (Abandonment) c.1886 Bronze, 42.3 x 39.1 x 20.5 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine © Musée Camille Claudel, photo by Marco Illuminati This bronze sculpture is a small model produced in 1905 by the foundryman and collector Eugène Blot,…
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Les Causeuses ou Les Bavardes (The Bavardes or the Loveseats) 1893 Bronze et marbre ou albâtre teinté, 32 x 34 x 24 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine The Gossips, or The Chatterboxes, or The Confidence, depicts a group…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Corpus (The Crucified Christ) c.1650 Bronze, 174 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) 1660–1670 Oil on canvas, 208.9 x 113 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego In this late painting by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, the luminous figure of Christ appears against…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nevermore 1897 Oil paint on canvas, 60.5 x 116 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London See also: • Tahiti (French Polynesia)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Femme aux bas blancs (Woman with White Stockings) 1864 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Traditionally, European painters made the nude subject decorous by presenting it as part of an edifying mythological narrative.…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Mauvaise surprise (Unpleasant Surprise) 1899–1901 Oil on canvas, 194.5 x 129.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia The large-scale jungle scenes of Henri Rousseau are rife with violent struggles between wild animals such as lions, tigers, and horses. Here, a…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1923–1924 Oil on canvas, 60 x 92 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Matisse painted this work in Nice, a city in the South of France that he visited frequently in the 1920s. The canvas is…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Léda au cygne (Leda and the Swan) c.1880 (possibly later) Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 74.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia This picture is unusual in Cézanne‘s oeuvre for its specific literary subject matter. It represents the story from Ovid‘s…