Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Intérieur après dîner (Interior, after Dinner) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 65.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a darkened room, two women sit at a round table near a man who stands leaning against…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1874 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work and its variant in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le faux miroir (The False Mirror) 1929 Oil on canvas, 54 x 80.9 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2013 C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York A huge, isolated eye stares out at…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed) 1938 Oil on canvas, 147 x 98.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2013 C. Herscovici, London / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Impressed by René Magritte’s submissions to the 1936 International…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne dans une robe rouge (Mme Cézanne in a Red Dress) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Of the four portraits that Cézanne painted of his wife wearing a…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Louis Gauthier-Lathuille 1879 Pastel on canvas, 54 x 45.7 cm Private collection See also: • Gauthier-Lathuille, Louis
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe (In a Cafe or Absinthe) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 92 x 68.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Unlike his Impressionist friends, Degas was an essentially urban painter, who liked to paint the enclosed…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Venus del Espejo (Venus at her Mirror, The Rokeby Venus) 1647–1651 Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 177 cm National Gallery, London This is the only surviving female nude painted by Velázquez. The subject was rare in seventeenth-century Spain,…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Dans un café (In a Café) 1880 Oil on canvas, 153 x 114 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen Caillebotte presented this café scene, typical of modern life, at the fifth Impressionist Exhibition. A life-sized male figure dominates the…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Portrait of Giovanni (?) Arnolfini and his Wife 1434 Oil on oak, 82.2 x 60 cm National Gallery, London This must be one of the most famous paintings in the world, and one of the most intriguing.…