Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Bouquet printanier (Spring Bouquet) 1866 Oil on canvas, 104.8 x 80.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA For many French artists during the 1860s, the floral still life persisted as a test of pure painterly ability. This exuberant…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vue de Bougival (View of Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 57.15 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee View of Bougival epitomizes the characteristics that would come to define Pierre Auguste Renoir’s special contributions to the Impressionist…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz”, Winterthur During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 59 x 80 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far from Paris. Monet noted on September 25, “I…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 66.5 x 81 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm In the short story, Paul’s mistress, the French author Guy de Maupassant describes the floating café La Grenouillère in a Paris suburb: “In the environs…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Grenouillère (Bathers at La Grenouillère) 1869 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm National Gallery, London During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 74.6 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Un atelier aux Batignolles (A Studio at Les Batignolles) 1870 Oil on canvas, 204 x 273.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Portraits: 1. Édouard Manet (1832-1883) 2. Otto Scholderer (1834-1902) 3. Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) 4. Émile Zola (1840-1902) 5.…
(1811–1872) Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier “Le bon Théo” Works: • Émaux et camées (1852) ◊ Enamels and Cameos (English) • La Comédie de la mort (1838) • Le Capitaine Fracasse (1863) ◊ Captain Fracasse (English) • Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) • Ménagerie intime (1869) ◊ My Private Menagerie (English)…
.Nice in Art: Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur à Nice c.1919 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur à Nice 1919–1920 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Les Persiennes 1919 Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Matisse,…