Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Femme sur un banc (Woman on a Bench) 1879 Pastel on canvas, 61 x 49.9 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone See also: • Demarsy, Jeanne (1865-1937)
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard (Portrait of Ambroise Vollard) 1899 Oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm Petit Palais, Paris According to Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), this portrait, undertaken by Cézanne in his studio near the Montmartre cemetery, required 115 morning sittings.…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Ambroise Vollard 1908 Oil on canvas, 81.6 x 65.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London One of the principal modern art dealers in the early twentieth century and a shrewd businessman, Ambroise Vollard sold much of Renoir’s work after…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Beatrice Hastings 1915 Oil on paperboard, 55.5 x 45.4 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Hastings, Beatrice (1879-1943)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Beatrice Hastings devant une porte (Beatrice Hastings before a door) 1915 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 46.4 cm Private collection The present picture is an elegant and evocative example from an important series of portraits that Modigliani…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Honoré de Balzac 1891 Terracotta, 23.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1891, the Société des Gens de Lettres commissioned Rodin to create a monument to Balzac, who had died in 1850, for the Palais-Royal in…
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) David Garrick 1770 Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 63.2 cm National Portrait Gallery, London See also: • Garrick, David (1717-1779)
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Portrait de Rodin (Portrait of Rodin) 1884 Oil on canvas, 72 x 53 cm Musée Rodin, Paris See also: • Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)