Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Baigneurs sur la Seine (Bathers in the Seine) 1874–1876 Oil on canvas, 134 x 100 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo The alternative title “Study from the Nude,” as Camesasca notes (1987, p. 67), is an indication of…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Fillette sur un banc (Young Girl on a Bench) 1880 Oil on canvas, 61.6 x 50.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia The young girl depicted in this portrait was the daughter of one of Manet‘s acquaintances in the Parisian…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Jeune femme dans un jardin (Young Woman in a Garden) 1879 Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 72.4 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia In this depiction of a fashionable young woman in a Parisian garden, reflective of his painting style…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Régalade (Boy with Pitcher) 1862–1872 Oil on canvas, 61.8 × 54.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “X-radiographs have revealed that this painting is a fragment of Les Gitanes, a large portrait of a gypsy family exhibited…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Berthe Morisot c.1869–1873 Oil on fabric, 74 x 60 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Manet kept this portrait of Morisot throughout his life, and it was listed in the inventory of his studio after his death. This…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Portrait de Verlaine (Portrait of Verlaine) 1867 Oil on canvas, 57.2 x 45.1 cm Private collection A false signature Gustave Courbet covered the real Frédéric Bazille. Signed F. Bazille, dated 1867 and dedicated “à mon cher ami le…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme à la perruche (Woman with Parrot) 1871 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 65.1 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York The woman holding the parakeet is Lise Tréhot, an artist’s model and Renoir’s close companion of six years. Tréhot…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Baigneuse au griffon, Lise au bord de la Seine (Bather with a Griffon Dog, Lise on the Bank of the Seine) 1870 Oil on canvas, 183.5 x 115 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Lise Tréhot (1848-1922) posed…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Promenade (The Walk) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 170.2 x 108.3 cm The Frick Collection, New York A young woman shepherds a pair of identically dressed little sisters along the path of a well-maintained public park. All three…