Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 32 x 41 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Madame Pierre Gautreau, born Virginie Avegno (1859–1915), was Madame X, the statuesque sitter in Sargent’s most notorious portrait…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 208.6 x 109.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Madame Pierre Gautreau (the Louisiana-born Virginie Amélie Avegno; 1859–1915) was known in Paris for her artful appearance.…
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) La Modiste (The Milliner) 1910–1911 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This effervescent painting of a young hatmaker strolling in the street was included in the first Futurist exhibition in Paris, held in…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter c.1872 Oil on canvas, 74.9 x 53.3 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit In this painting, Whistler explores problems in technique and composition, as well as his own…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Femme lisant (A Woman Reading) 1869–1870 Oil on canvas, 54.3 × 37.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the seventy-two-year-old Corot showed A Woman Reading at the Salon of 1869, the critic Théophile Gautier praised…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) La Femme à la perle (Woman with a Pearl) c.1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 70 x 55 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Camille sur son lit de mort (Camille on her Deathbed) 1879 Oil on canvas, 90 x 68 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Bazille et Camille, Etude pour “Déjeuner sur l’Herbe” (Bazille and Camille, Study for “Déjeuner sur l’Herbe”) 1865 Oil on canvas, 93 x 68.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman wearing a long, slate-gray gown walks…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Mademoiselle Sicot 1865 Oil on canvas, 116 x 89.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the knees up, a woman with pale, pink skin and cinnamon-brown hair sits with her hands in her lap…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jacques, Suzanne, Blanche et Germaine Hoschedé c.1880 Pastel, 97 cm Private collection See also: • Hoschedé, Germaine (1873-1968) | Hoschedé, Jacques (1869-1941) | Hoschedé Butler, Suzanne (1863-1899) | Hoschedé Monet, Blanche (1865-1947)