Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jean-Pierre Hoschedé et Michel Monet au bord de l’Epte (Jean-Pierre Hoschedé and Michel Monet on the Bank of the Epte) c.1887–1890 Oil on canvas, 76 x 96.5 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Monet’s son Michel and stepson Jean-Pierre…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Claude Monet et Mme Henriot 1880 Oil on canvas, 54.2 x 73 cm Private collection A leisurely Claude Monet and the stage actress Mme Henriette Henriot are the subjects of Renoir‘s plein-air composition of 1880. Renoir and Monet…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Tanagra (The Builders, New York) 1918 Oil on canvas, 149.2 x 149 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington In Tanagra (The Builders, New York), Childe Hassam painted an ambivalent image of modern life. At the turn of the twentieth…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’église de Vétheuil (The Church at Vétheuil) 1880 Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 61 cm Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton Monet moved with his family to Vétheuil in 1878 and despite the death of his wife the following year…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Cosimo I de’ Medici (Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici) c.1560 Oil on wood, 84 x 64 cm National Gallery, Prague See also: • Medici, Cosimo I de’ (1519-1574)
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Toilette de la mariée (Attirement of the Bride) 1940 Oil on canvas, 129.6 x 96.3 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Attirement of the Bride is an example of Max Ernst’s veristic…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Devant le miroir (Before the Mirror) 1876 Oil on canvas, 93 x 71.6 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York In 1865 Edouard Manet shocked Parisian audiences at the Salon with his painting Olympia (1863), an unabashed depiction of a prostitute…
Guercino (1591-1666) Papa Gregorio XV (Pope Gregory XV) c.1622–1623 Oil on canvas, 133.7 × 98.4 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino or simply Guercino, meaning “The Squinter”, a nickname referring to a congenital eye condition from which…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pêcheurs sur la Seine près de Poissy (Fishermen on the Seine near Poissy) 1882 Oil on canvas, 59.8 × 81.7 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna See also: • Poissy (France)
Guercino (1591-1666) La morte di Cleopatra (Death of Cleopatra) 1648 Oil on canvas, 173 x 237 cm Palazzo Rosso, Genova This painting, in which Cleopatra is depicted in the act of taking her life, in order not to suffer the shame…