Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) A Balcony in Seville 1873 Oil on canvas, 101.7 × 82.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia After her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Mary Cassatt traveled to Europe in 1866 to complete…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune fille au panier (Young Girl with Basket) 1892 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Wearing a chiffon-trimmed hat and holding a straw basket, Berthe Morisot’s young sitter waits, poised to pick flowers…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait de Madame Cézanne (Portrait of Madame Cézanne) 1885–1886 Oil on canvas, 61.9 × 51.1 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Hortense Fiquet—Cézanne’s mistress, mother of his son, Paul, and later his wife—was the artist’s most frequent model, appearing…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Yeux bleus (Blue Eyes) 1917 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 42.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Born in Livorno, Italy, on the coast of Tuscany, Modigliani moved to Paris in January 1906, where he quickly fell in with…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Blonde à la rose (Blonde Girl with a Rose) c.1915–1917 Oil on canvas, 64 x 54 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Renoir painted this portrait of Andrée-Madeleine Heuschling towards the end of his life. She was then aged just…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough c.1778 Oil on canvas, 76.6 x 63.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This intimate portrait may have been painted to celebrate the 50th birthday of Thomas Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret (around 1728-1798). He portrayed her…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Autoportrait à la pipe (Self-portrait with a pipe) 1871 Charcoal on wove paper, 81.5 × 65 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Charcoal on heterogeneous brown industrial wove paper, probably wrapping paper. Label on the back of the montage:…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Testa di donna inclinata, sorridente, occhi bassi (Woman’s head tilted, smiling, eyes downcast) c.1543 Black chalk on paper, 28.8 × 21.6 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Study for the young woman appearing on the far left of the composition…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Portrait d’une jeune femme (Portrait of a Young Woman) 1918 Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 27.9 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’homme (Antonin Proust?) 1855 Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm National Gallery, Prague See also: • Proust, Antonin (1832-1905)