Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La lecture (The Reading) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 61 x 73.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Koelin-Leenhoff, Léon | Manet, Suzanne
La lecture (c.1868)
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Madame Auguste Manet (c.1866)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Auguste Manet c.1866 Oil on canvas, 98 x 80 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston This portrait of the artist’s mother, Eugénie-Désirée Fournier Manet (1811-1885), shows her in the widow’s black mourning dress she donned after her…
Madame Manet (1874-1876)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Manet 1874–1876 Oil on canvas, 60.6 x 50.8 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Manet met his future wife, Suzanne Leenhoff, in 1850, when she arrived in his parents’ household as a piano teacher. Before their marriage, Suzanne…
Portrait de Mademoiselle Claus (1868)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Mademoiselle Claus (Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus) 1868 Oil on canvas, 115.7 x 72.8 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford After twice failing the entrance exam to train as a naval officer, Édouard Manet (1832–83) went to Paris to pursue…
Le Madras Rouge (1907)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Madras Rouge (Red Madras Headdress) 1907 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Image © 2013 The Barnes Foundation ©2011 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York This striking portrait represents Amelie…
La Raie verte (1905)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Raie verte, Madame Matisse (The Green Stripe, Madame Matisse) 1905 Oil and tempera on canvas, 40.5 x 32.5 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen © Succession H. Matisse, Paris This depiction of the artist’s wife, Amélie, is…
Autoportrait (1899)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1899 Oil on canvas, 41.4 x 33.7 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Renoir presents himself in this self-portrait as a mature and confident man. He was in his late fifties and well-established as an artist; the flowered…
Autoportrait au chapeau blanc (1910)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Autoportrait au chapeau blanc (Self-Portrait with White Hat) 1910 Oil on canvas, 42 x 33 cm Private collection
Portrait of Barbara Dürer, née Holper (1490)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of Barbara Dürer, née Holper (Porträt der Barbara Dürer, geb. Holper) 1490 Oil on panel, 47.2 x 35.7 cm Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg Diptych of Dürer’s Parents. Companion: Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of Albrecht Dürer the Elder 1490…
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer the Elder (1497)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of Albrecht Dürer the Elder (Bildnis des Albrecht Dürer des Älteren) 1497 Oil on lime, 51 x 40.3 cm National Gallery, London The inscription at the top of this picture tells us the sitter is Dürer’s father, Albrecht…