Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Sur le Grand Canal, Venise (Grand Canal, Venice) 1881 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston When Renoir’s Venetian pictures were first exhibited, one critic called them, “the most outrageous series of ferocious…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme à la perruche (Woman with Parrot) 1871 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 65.1 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York The woman holding the parakeet is Lise Tréhot, an artist’s model and Renoir’s close companion of six years. Tréhot…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Baigneuse au griffon, Lise au bord de la Seine (Bather with a Griffon Dog, Lise on the Bank of the Seine) 1870 Oil on canvas, 183.5 x 115 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Lise Tréhot (1848-1922) posed…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Aline Charigot c.1885 Oil on canvas, 65.4 × 54 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Renoir first met Aline Charigot in late 1879. She soon became a favorite model and, in 1890, the artist’s wife. Charigot probably posed for…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Grands Boulevards (The Grands Boulevards) 1875 Oil on canvas, 52.1 × 63.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Perhaps Renoir‘s most famous view of Paris is this archetypical image of its newest and most fashionable district in…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) En été, la Bohémienne (In Summer, the Bohemian) 1868 Oil on canvas, 85 x 59 cm Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin See also: • Tréhot, Lise (1848-1922)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Bord de mer (Seaside, July: Specimen of a Portrait) 1878 Oil on fabric, 87.5 x 61 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland From 1869 to 1876, under the pseudonym Coïdé, Tissot published political cartoons in the British weekly…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) c.1865 Oil on panel, 49.8 x 30.2 cm Legion of Honor, San Francisco
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La tour rouge (The Red Tower) 1913 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 100.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Giorgio de Chirico’s enigmatic works of 1911 to 1917 provided a crucial inspiration for the Surrealist painters. The dreamlike…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Autoritratto nello studio di Parigi (Self-portrait in the Parisian studio) 1934 Oil on canvas, 130 x 76 cm Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma See also: • Paris (France)