Rembrandt (1606-1669) Artist in his Studio c.1628 Oil on panel, 24.8 x 31.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston A young artist stands in a nearly empty studio, brushes in hand. Rather than showing the artist in the act of…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Charles River and Beacon Hill c.1892 Oil on canvas, 40.96 x 45.72 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In Charles River and Beacon Hill Hassam employed the radical compositional effects that he had seen in French painting to…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Boston Common at Twilight (At Dusk) 1885–1886 Oil on canvas, 106.68 x 152.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Childe Hassam, the son of a Dorchester hardware merchant, had made only one trip to Europe before painting Boston…
Guercino (1591-1666) Semiramide riceve la notizia della rivolta di Babilonia (Semiramis Receiving Word of the Revolt of Babylon) 1624 Oil on canvas, 112.4 x 154.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Interrupted at her toilette by news of a revolt,…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Le thé (The Tea) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 92.07 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cassatt’s paintings often document the social interactions of well-to-do women like herself. The activities they depict—tea drinking, going to the…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Chanteuse de rue (Street Singer) c.1862 Oil on canvas, 171.1 x 105.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Awkwardly clutching her guitar and a parcel of cherries, a street musician hitches up her skirt to facilitate her…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Victorine Meurent c.1862 Oil on canvas, 42.9 x 43.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Victorine-Louise Meurent (1844-1927) was a professional artist’s model and painter in her own right, exhibiting work at the Paris Salon in 1876 and…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Fruits à l’étalage (Fruit displayed on a stand) c.1881–1882 Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 100.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Caillebotte delighted in unusual vantage points and compositions. This close-up view of fruit stacked on a market…