Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bon Bock (The Good Bock) 1873 Oil on canvas, 94.6 × 83.3 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Bock is a dark, rich beer made in the spring. This vivid depiction of a drinker recalls the animated portraits by…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Dressing for the Carnival 1877 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this painting Homer evoked the dislocation and endurance of African American culture that is a legacy of slavery—specifically the Jonkonnu…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Claude Monet lisant (Claude Monet reading) c.1873 Oil on canvas, 61.7 x 50 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Companion: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Camille Monet c.1873 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Claude Monet, Le Liseur 1872 National Gallery…
Miró, Joan (1893-1983) Caballo, pipa y flor roja (Horse, Pipe, and Red Flower) 1920 Oil on canvas, 82.6 x 74.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Miró painted this work at his home in the Spanish village of Montroig shortly after his first…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Autoportrait à la pipe (Self-portrait with pipe) c.1895 Drypoint on paper, 114 x 77 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Half-length self-portrait of the artist, turned to the right with a pipe in his mouth. An inverted woman’s head is visible…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Love’s Passing 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 71.76 x 109.86 cm De Morgan Collection This painting is an allegory for the passing of time and the life cycle. The lovers in the foreground sit listening to the piping…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le fumeur (The Smoker) 1866 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81.3 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis This working-class character was one of many ordinary Parisians painted by Manet in the 1860s. A year before making this portrait,…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Coin d’un café-concert (Corner of a Café-Concert) probably 1878–1880 Oil on canvas, 97.1 x 77.5 cm National Gallery, London In the middle of the nineteenth century the café-concert became extremely popular in France, and Parisian establishments such as the…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Le fumeur accoudé (The smoker leaning) 1890 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 73.5 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Marsia e Olimpo (Marsyas and Olympus) 1597–1600 Oil on wood, 34.4 x 84.2 cm National Gallery, London A naked golden-haired youth sits on a rock, playing the panpipes; another set of pipes hangs from the tree behind him.…