Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Wagon de troisième classe (The Third-Class Carriage) c.1862–1864 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 90.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York As a graphic artist and painter, Daumier chronicled the impact of industrialization on modern urban life in…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les Joueurs d’échecs (The Chess players) c.1863–1867 Oil on wood on canvas, 48 x 55.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) La République (The Republic) 1848 Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
(1901–1976) See also: • Musée d’art moderne André Malraux (Le Havre) • Place André-Malraux (Paris) Born November 3 1901 Paris (France) Died November 23 1976 Créteil (France) Occupation Novelist Writer Awards Croix de guerre 1939-1945 Prix Goncourt
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Autoportrait à la palette (Self Portrait with Palette) c.1898 Oil on canvas, 53.02 × 30.48 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Pissarro experienced a chronic eye disease at the end of his life. Because of frequent eye infections, he…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre-Français au printemps (Place du Theatre-Francais, Spring) 1898 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Here Pissarro depicted that part of Paris near the Comedie Francaise, although the theatre building itself remains outside…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre-Français, effet de brouillard (Place du Theatre Francais: Fog Effect) 1897 Oil on canvas, 54.61 × 66.36 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Pissarro painted Place du Théâtre Français from his room at the Grand Hôtel du…
Place André-Malraux in Art: Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre-Français, effet de brouillard 1897 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre-Français au printemps 1898 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Malraux, André (1901-1976) | Paris…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Acrobates au cirque Fernando (Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Oil on canvas, 131.2 × 99.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Chahut 1889–1890 Oil on canvas, 170 x 141 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Cancan The women and men in this painting are enthusiastically dancing the chahut, or cancan, a risqué dance for that period, whereby the women lift their…