Tag: painting

Ensor au chevalet (1886)

Ensor, James (1860-1949) Ensor au chevalet (Ensor at his Easel) 1886? Oil on canvas, 58.5 × 40.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

La Muse (1935)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La Muse (The Muse) 1935 Oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris Returning to a peaceful climate, Picasso painted two Inspiration figures, one drawing its own reflection in the mirror, the other sleeping. The…

Autoportrait (1900)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) 1900 Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris

Portrait de Madame X (1878)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait de Madame X (Portrait of Madame X) 1878 Pastel, 63 x 50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier A central figure in Impressionism, Caillebotte trained in 1871 in the very academic studio of Léon Bonnat. While he passed the entrance…

Femmes d’Alger dans leur intérieur (1849)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Femmes d’Alger dans leur intérieur (Women of Algiers in their interior) 1849 Oil on canvas, 85 × 112 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Paris, entrusted by the artist to the silver statue lottery, around September 1849; acquired from this lottery…

The Egyptian Widow (1872)

Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) The Egyptian Widow 1872 Oil on panel, 74.9 × 99.1 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Frisian artist Alma-Tadema was a great success in England, where he was even knighted. His representations of ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman scenes made…

Portrait de Cézanne (1874)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Portrait de Cézanne (Portrait of Cézanne) 1874 Oil on canvas, 73 × 59.7 cm National Gallery, London On loan from the collection of Laurence Graff OBE, © Laurence Graff OBE Pissarro‘s influence profoundly changed the direction of Cézanne‘s art…

Dans une salle (1899)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Dans une salle (In a Room) 1899 Oil on cardboard pasted on panel, 52 x 79 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This artist’s fondness for the depiction of domestic scenes was probably bound up with recollections of the…

Autoportrait à la casquette (c.1872)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Autoportrait à la casquette (Self-Portrait in a Casquette) c.1872 Oil on canvas, 53 x 39.7 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Painted in the early 1870s, at a time when Cézanne was closest of all to the Impressionists, this…