Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te Faaturuma (The Brooding Woman) 1891 Oil on canvas, 91.1 x 68.7 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Te Faaturuma (1891)
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Le Retour du troupeau (c.1768-1770)
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le Retour du troupeau (Return of the Drove) c.1768–1770 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 80 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
La Boudeuse (c.1718)
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Boudeuse (The Capricious Girl) c.1718 Oil on canvas, 42 × 34 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg When Watteau was elected a member of the French Academy of Arts, a term was specially invented to describe the kind of…
Le Savoyard et la Marmotte (1716)
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Le Savoyard et la Marmotte (Savoyard with a Marmot) 1716 Oil on canvas, 40.5 × 32.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Antoine Watteau was one of the most brilliant artists of the early 18th century. His work gave rise…
Acteurs de la Comedie-Francaise (1711-1712)
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Acteurs de la Comedie-Francaise (Actors of the Comédie-Française) 1711–1712 Oil on panel, 20 × 25 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Watteau was very fond of the play Les trois cousines (The Three Cousins) by Florent Carton, known as Dancourt,…
Fête champêtre (1718-1721)
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering) 1718–1721 Oil on panel, 48.6 × 64.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) Assisted by Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695-1736) Jean Antoine Watteau developed the genre of painting known as fête…
Fêtes Vénitiennes (1718-1719)
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Fêtes Vénitiennes (Venetian Festivals) 1718–1719 Oil on canvas, 56.3 × 46.2 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh This is a very fine example of the ‘fêtes galantes’ perfected by Watteau. He included himself as the seated musician playing a musette.…
Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère (1717)
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère (Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera) 1717 Oil on canvas, 129 × 194 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Cythera (Greece)
Le Lecteur (1861)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Lecteur (The Reader) 1861 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 81.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Edouard Manet represented his elderly friend, the painter Joseph Gall, absorbed in reading a large book. The ledge in the…
L’Escalier d’Auvers (1890)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) L’Escalier d’Auvers (Stairway at Auvers) 1890 Oil on canvas, 50 × 70.5 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis The expressive, swirling lines of the foreground road move backward to the center of the composition and join the…