Tag: light

Jeune femme au chapeau vert

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme au chapeau vert (Young woman with green hat) s.d. Pastel on paper, 56.5 x 43.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires ​In this undated pastel by Pierre Renoir, a woman wearing a large…

Le Pont d’Argenteuil (1875)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont d’Argenteuil (The Bridge at Argenteuil) 1875 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires This painting raises some iconographic questions. Generally referred to as Argenteuil Bridge, the painting is…

La berge de la Seine (1880)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La berge de la Seine (The banks of the Seine) 1880 Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires At the session of November 17, 1910, the members of the Deliberative…

La Coiffure (1894)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La Coiffure (The Hairstyle) 1894 Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In 1893, with the modesty that characterised all her work, Berthe Morisot addressed the subject of hairdressing for…

Ciego popular en Cádiz

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Ciego popular en Cádiz (Popular blind man in Cadiz) s.d. Watercolor on paper, 26.5 x 17.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Costumbrista scene whose main interest lies in the fact that it is a…

Lavanderas en el bajo de Belgrano (1865)

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Lavanderas en el bajo de Belgrano (Washerwomen in Belgrano) 1865 Oil on canvas, 102 x 126.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The first institutional destination of Lavanderas en el Bajo de Belgrano was the…

El baño (1865)

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) El baño (The Bath) 1865 Oil on canvas, 102 x 126.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Currently, two nudes by Prilidiano Pueyrredón are known: El baño and La siesta (private collection), both of a…

Retrato de Manuelita Rosas, estudio (1851)

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Retrato de Manuelita Rosas, estudio (Portrait of Manuelita Rosas, study) 1851 Oil on canvas, 37.7 x 30.3 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires There are no surviving sketches by Prilidiano Pueyrredón, except for unfinished works…

Retrato de Manuelita Rosas (1851)

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Retrato de Manuelita Rosas (Portrait of Manuelita Rosas) 1851 Oil on canvas, 199 x 166 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Prilidiano Pueyrredón returned from Europe in 1851, after having left Buenos Aires in 1835.…

Paisaje con barcos (1862)

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Paisaje con barcos (Landscape with boats) 1862 Watercolor on paper, 17 x 16 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires This small watercolour depicts an open view of the Río de la Plata, with the dominant ochre…