Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nue arrangeant ses cheveux (Nude Arranging Her Hair) c.1916 Oil on canvasboard, 104.77 x 75.24 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Suzanne Valadon painted female nudes throughout her career and was one of only a few…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La Muse (The Muse) 1935 Oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris Returning to a peaceful climate, Picasso painted two Inspiration figures, one drawing its own reflection in the mirror, the other sleeping. The…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Peintre dans son atelier (The Painter and His Model) 1916–1917 Oil on canvas, 146.5 x 97 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris The window in the artist’s studio is both a crossing point and a metaphor for painting.…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Toilette de la mariée (Attirement of the Bride) 1940 Oil on canvas, 129.6 x 96.3 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Attirement of the Bride is an example of Max Ernst’s veristic…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Devant le miroir (Before the Mirror) 1876 Oil on canvas, 93 x 71.6 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York In 1865 Edouard Manet shocked Parisian audiences at the Salon with his painting Olympia (1863), an unabashed depiction of a prostitute…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Femmes d’Alger dans leur intérieur (Women of Algiers in their interior) 1849 Oil on canvas, 85 × 112 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Paris, entrusted by the artist to the silver statue lottery, around September 1849; acquired from this lottery…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge 1879 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 59.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Cassatt created a series of theater scenes in the late 1870s, displaying an interest in city nightlife…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Giovane donna nuda allo specchio (Young woman at her toilette) 1515 Oil on poplar panel, 62.9 x 78.3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription: “Joannes bellinus faciebat M.D.X.V.” As an elderly man, Bellini turned to the depiction of a…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Pompadour à sa toilette (Pompadour at Her Toilette) 1750 Oil on canvas, 81.2 × 64.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721–1764), became the official mistress of Louis XV in 1745. Numerous portraits of her…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Au café (In the Café) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 35.7 x 27.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Everyday life Together with Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir is one of the central figures of impressionism. But while Monet prefers to paint…