Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Daubigny travaillant sur le Botin près d’Auvers-sur-Oise (Daubigny working on his “Botin” near Auvers-sur-Oise) 1860 Oil on canvas, 24.3 x 34 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This painting is both a lyrical example of Corot’s late landscape…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Artists Sketching in the White Mountains 1868 Oil on panel, 24.1 × 40.3 cm Portland Museum of Art, Portland
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La Cheminée (The Mantelpiece) 1905 Oil on cardboard, 51.4 × 77.5 cm National Gallery, London This picture – a combination of interior scene and still-life painting – shows Vuillard’s room at Château-Rouge in Amfreville, Normandy. His friends Jos and…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Psyché montrant à ses soeurs les présents de l’amour (Psyche showing her Sisters her Gifts from Cupid) 1753 Oil on canvas, 168.3 × 192.4 cm National Gallery, London This painting illustrates an episode from the classical story of Cupid…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) 1860 Oil on canvas, 31.4 × 25.4 cm Tate Britain, London Fantin-Latour painted a number of self portraits in the years 1854–61 which were characterised by having summary backgrounds or no settings at all. In…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Femme dans un intérieur (Woman in Interior) 1932 Gouache with pastel, watercolor, and charcoal on tan wove paper, laid down on canvas, 72.7 × 91.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1909 Pastel on gray wove paper, 50 × 29.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le bosquet sacré, bien-aimé des arts et des muses (The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses) 1884–1889 Oil on canvas, 93 × 231 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The indeterminately mythological figures that…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le collectionneur d’estampes (The Print Collector) c.1860 Oil on cradled panel, 42.3 × 33 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757) Allegoria della pittura (Allegory of Painting) 1730s Pastel and red chalk on blue laid paper mounted on canvas, 44.3 × 34.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the chest up, a young woman with pale, smooth skin…