Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1928 Oil on cardboard, 60 x 80.48 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Suzanne Valadon posed as a model for the artists Renoir, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec before she began painting herself in 1893.…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Jeunes filles de Sparte (Young Women of Sparta) 1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 74.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Along with 42.196, this painting of a pale, contemplative young woman dressed in garments that conjure past times…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme au tambourin (Woman with Tambourine) 1925 Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nevermore 1897 Oil paint on canvas, 60.5 x 116 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Paul Gauguin painted Nevermore in February 1897, during his second and final stay in Tahiti, an island in the southern Pacific colonised by France. Intended…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1923–1924 Oil on canvas, 60 x 92 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Matisse painted this work in Nice, a city in the South of France that he visited frequently in the 1920s. The canvas is…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Léda au cygne (Leda and the Swan) c.1880 (possibly later) Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 74.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia This picture is unusual in Cézanne‘s oeuvre for its specific literary subject matter. It represents the story from Ovid‘s…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Femme allongée (Reclining Woman) 1922 Oil on canvas, 64.5 × 92 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Fernand Léger first saw the work of the Cubists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the Paris gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Le duc d’Orléans montrant sa maîtresse (The Duke of Orleans showing his Lover) c.1825–1826 Oil on canvas, 35 x 25.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This signed canvas by Delacroix depicting a literary subject has been dated to around…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) The Nymph at the Fountain c.1530–1534 Oil on panel, 75 x 120 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach was among the most important 16th-century German painters. His oeuvre includes religious compositions as…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Bergère nue couchée (Reclining Nude Shepherdess) 1891 Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 86.4 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen In the spring and summer of 1890 -and again in 1891– Berthe Morisot, with her husband Eugène Manet…