Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le balcon (The Balcony) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 170 x 125 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris When Manet painted this piece, scenes of bourgeois life were in vogue. Yet The Balcony went against the conventions of the day. All…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Manet dans le Jardin de Bellevue (Madame Manet in the Garden at Bellevue) 1880 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 60.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite the seemingly rapid brushwork and the summary treatment of detail,…
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…
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…
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)
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 This depiction of the artist’s wife, Amélie, is…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Léonard Renoir, le père de l’artiste (Léonard Renoir, the Artist’s Father) 1869 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 47 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Painted when the artist was twenty-eight, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s work represents his seventy year-old father,…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de la mère de Renoir (Portrait of Renoir’s Mother) 1860 Oil on canvas, 45 x 38 cm Private collection See also: • Merlet, Marguerite (1807-1896)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille endormie au chat (Sleeping Girl with a cat) 1880 Oil on canvas, 120.3 x 91.9 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown A young woman dozes in a chair, her striped stockings and plain skirt suggesting her humble background.…
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…