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Le Chahut (1889-1890)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Chahut 1889–1890 Oil on canvas, 170 x 141 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Cancan The women and men in this painting are enthusiastically dancing the chahut, or cancan, a risqué dance for that period, whereby the women lift their…

Ambroise Vollard (1908)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Ambroise Vollard 1908 Oil on canvas, 81.6 x 65.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London See also: • Vollard, Ambroise (1866-1939)

Honoré de Balzac (1891)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Honoré de Balzac 1891 Terracotta, 23.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1891, the Société des Gens de Lettres commissioned Rodin to create a monument to Balzac, who had died in 1850, for the Palais-Royal in…

Portrait de Rodin (1884)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Portrait de Rodin (Portrait of Rodin) 1884 Oil on canvas, 72 x 53 cm Musée Rodin, Paris See also: • Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Abramo e i tre angeli (c.1770)

Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Abramo e i tre angeli (Abraham and the three angels) c.1770 Oil on canvas, 196 x 151 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting presents an event mentioned in the book of Genesis (18, 1.19). Giambattista Tiepolo…

Autoritratto (1635-1638)

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1635–1638 Oil on canvas, 46 x 32 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Bernini‘s Self-portrait that has been kept in the Museo del Prado since 1929, since it was published in 1908 by D’Achiardi, critics…