Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme cousant (Young Woman Sewing) 1879 Oil on canvas, 61.4 × 50.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The model for this elegant painting of a French bourgeois woman sewing may be Aline Charigot, whom Pierre-Auguste Renoir would…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jean Renoir cousant (Jean Renoir Sewing) 1899–1900 Oil on canvas, 55.4 × 46.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s son Jean, seen here, served as a model for his father from a young age. Renoir so loved…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Chahut 1889–1890 Oil on canvas, 170 x 141 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Cancan The women and men in this painting are enthusiastically dancing the chahut, or cancan, a risqué dance for that period, whereby the women lift their…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Femme au manchon (Lady with a muff) c.1884 Conté crayon on paper, 29.5 x 22 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Mock This lady is dressed in the fashion of the day, with her tall hat, constricted waist, the skirt protruding…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Collioure, le clocher, Opus 164 (Collioure, the Belltower, Opus 164) 1887 Oil on canvas, 33 x 46 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Autodidact Paul Signac actually wanted to be a writer, but after seeing the impressionist paintings of Claude…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La salle à manger, Opus 152 (The Dining Room, Opus 152) 1886–1887 Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 116.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Meeting The young Signac begins his painting career as an impressionist. That changes in 1884 when…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Le Moulin d’Alfort (The Moulin d’Alfort) c.1895 Oil on canvas, 37.8 x 45.5 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Charenton-le-Pont c.1905–1910 Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 40.8 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone See also: • Charenton-le-Pont (France)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Promenade (The walk) 1875 Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 80.4 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone See also: • Argenteuil (France) | Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879) | Monet, Jean (1867-1914)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Argenteuil vu du petit bras de la Seine (Argenteuil Seen from the Small Branch of the Seine) 1872 Oil on canvas, 51.3 x 65.9 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone See also: • Argenteuil (France)