Tag: portrait

Ballerina (c.1927)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Ballerina c.1927 Oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In 1920 Matisse became acquainted with 19-year-old Henriette Darricarrère, who became his model for the next seven years. The girl was a ballet dancer at the…

Le Madras Rouge (1907)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Madras Rouge (Red Madras Headdress) 1907 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Image © 2013 The Barnes Foundation ©2011 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York This striking portrait represents Amelie…

Femme au chapeau (1905)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat) 1905 Oil on canvas, 80.65 x 59.69 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco See also: • Matisse-Parayre, Amélie Noellie (1872-1958)

La Raie verte (1905)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Raie verte, Madame Matisse (The Green Stripe, Madame Matisse) 1905 Oil and tempera on canvas, 40.5 x 32.5 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen © Succession H. Matisse, Paris See also: • Matisse-Parayre, Amélie Noellie (1872-1958)

Diane chasseresse (1867)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Diane chasseresse (Diana) 1867 Oil on canvas, 199.5 x 129.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Renoir wrote that he had produced this painting as a study of a nude, the sort of exercise that was a mainstay of…