Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Beaulieu, La baie de Fourmis (Beaulieu, The Bay of Fourmis) 1892 Oil on canvas, 54.9 x 90.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted in the small town of Beaulieu on the French Riviera in March…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Sur la plage à Trouville (On the Beach at Trouville) 1863 Oil on wood, 26.7 × 48.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boudin, a native of Honfleur, began painting scenes of fashionable beach resorts along…
Guercino (1591-1666) Sansone catturato dai filistei (Samson Captured by the Philistines) 1619 Oil on canvas, 191.1 x 236.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York According to the Bible, Samson, whose strength came from his hair, was shorn by his duplicitous…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) 1891 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Portrait of the Artist 1878 Watercolor, gouache on wove paper laid down to buff-colored wood-pulp paper, 60 x 41.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mary Cassatt painted this self-portrait, one of only two known, a…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Cup of Tea c.1880–1881 Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Taking afternoon tea was a social ritual for many upper-middle-class women. Committed to portraying the ordinary events of everyday…
Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Arlequin à la guitare (Harlequin with a Guitar) 1917 Oil on panel, 100.3 × 65.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Like many European artists before them, Cubists often depicted Harlequin, a stock character in the Italian…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Juan Gris 1915 Oil on canvas, 54.9 x 38.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Modigliani, who left Italy for Paris in 1906, is said to have met the Spanish artist Juan Gris at the apartment of…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Lola de Valence 1915 Oil on paper, mounted on wood, 52.1 × 33.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Modigliani consistently integrated stylistic features of African art into his distinctive portraits. This work represents Lola de Valence,…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1917 Oil on canvas, 60.6 x 92.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Modigliani’s celebrated series of reclining nudes, begun in 1916, is influenced by Italian Renaissance representations of Venus and other idealized…