Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Tapis rouge (The Red Carpet) 1906 Oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble © Succession H. Matisse
Le Tapis rouge (1906)
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L’Atelier rouge (1911)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) L’Atelier rouge (The Red Studio) 1911 Oil on canvas, 181 x 219.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2013 Succession H. Matisse, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Jeunes filles au piano (1892)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) 1892 Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 86.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In late 1891 or early 1892 Renoir was invited by the French government to execute a…
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Whistler’s Mother (1871)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Whistler’s Mother 1871 Oil on canvas, 144.3 x 163 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Whistler, Anna McNeill (1804-1881)
Las Meninas (1656)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Las Meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV (Las meninas or The Family of Philip IV) 1656 Oil on canvas, 320.5 x 281.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of Velázquez‘s largest paintings and among…
L’Atelier du peintre. Allégorie (1854-1855)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Atelier du peintre. Allégorie (The Painter’s Studio. Allegory) 1854–1855 Oil on canvas, 361 x 598 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
La familia de Carlos IV (1800)
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La familia de Carlos IV (The Family of Carlos IV) 1800 Oil on canvas, 280 x 336 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This portrait of the family of King Carlos IV (1748-1819) was painted in Aranjuez and Madrid…
Cache-cache (c.1877)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Cache-cache (Hide and Seek) c.1877 Oil on wood, 73.4 x 53.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In early 1874 Degas wrote, “Look here, my dear Tissot. . . you positively must exhibit at the Boulevard [in the…
The Music Lesson (1662-1665)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Music Lesson (De muziekles) 1662–1665 Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 64.5 cm Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, London
The Love Letter (1669)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Love Letter (De liefdesbrief) 1669 Oil on canvas, 44 x 38.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Vermeer chose an unusual vantage point for this painting. From a dim space in the foreground, a glimpse is afforded of another room…