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…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Nu couché sur canapé rose (Reclining nude on a pink couch) 1919 Oil on canvas, 33.3 × 41.2 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme nue sur un canapé (Nude on a Couch) 1915 Oil on canvas, 54.4 x 65.3 cm Tate Britain, London See also: • Renard, Gabrielle (1878-1959)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Monet lisant (Madame Monet Reading Le Figaro) c.1872–1874 Oil on canvas, 53 x 71.7 cm Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa See also: • Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La rêveuse, Soirée d’été (The Dreamer, Summer Evening) c.1876 Oil on wood, 34.9 x 60.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Femme au repos (Woman in Repose) 1921 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.7 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone