Tag: MET

Pommes et raisins (1879-1880)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pommes et raisins (Apples and Grapes) c.1879–1880 Oil on canvas, 67.6 x 89.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of three tabletop still lifes depicting a basket of apples and grapes that Monet…

La Promeneuse (1887)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Promeneuse (The stroller, Suzanne Hoschedé) 1887 Oil on canvas, 100.6 x 70.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting of Suzanne Hoschedé in the meadows just south of Le Pressoir, Monet‘s home at Giverny,…

Une serveuse au restaurant Duval (c.1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Une serveuse au restaurant Duval (Waitress at Duval’s Restaurant) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 71.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The title Renoir conferred on this painting is untraced. By 1885 it was on…

Tilla Durieux (1914)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880-1971) 1914 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In July 1914, just prior to the outbreak of World War I, the famous German actress Tilla Durieux…

Versailles (1900-1905)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Versailles 1900–1905 Oil on canvas, 52.1 x 63.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renouncing the informal approach of Impressionist painters during his later career, Renoir returned to more traditionally inspired motifs. This autumn landscape shows…

Une route à Louveciennes (c.1870)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Une route à Louveciennes (A Road in Louveciennes) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 46.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture, which is in effect drawn directly with paint, was almost certainly executed out-of-doors…