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Mont Saint-Michel, soleil couchant (1897)

Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Mont Saint-Michel, soleil couchant (Mont Saint-Michel, Setting Sun) 1897 Oil on canvas, 66.04 × 81.6 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In 1897 Paul Signac made a series of seven paintings of Mont Saint-Michel, a medieval monastery on…

Jeune femme cousant (1879)

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…

Jean Renoir cousant (1899-1900)

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…

Le Chahut (1889-1890)

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…

Femme au manchon (c.1884)

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…

Collioure, le clocher (1887)

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…

La salle à manger (1886-1887)

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…