Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Dame au chien (A Woman with a Dog) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting belongs to a celebrated group of Fragonards known as the fantasy figures. The canvas…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Maddalena penitente (Penitent Magdalene) 1597 Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 98.5 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma Portrayed in an unadorned environment and sitting on a low chair, as if crushed by the shot from above, with a single ray…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Famille de l’artiste (The Artist’s Family) 1896 Oil on canvas, 173 x 137.2 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Renoir presents his family in the garden of their residence in Paris. At center Renoir‘s wife, Aline Charigot Renoir, wears…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Jeune fille au corsage à pois (Girl with a Polka-Dot Blouse) 1919 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 73 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia A thin paint surface and clean, decisive lines characterize this portrait of a young woman. The…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Famille Henriot (Henriot Family) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 164.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Daytrips to the countryside around Paris became a popular form of leisure during the late 19th century. Renoir alludes to this kind…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) La Lecture interrompue (Interrupted Reading) c.1870 Oil on canvas mounted on board, 92.5 × 65.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Interrupted Reading is among the most compelling of Camille Corot’s late figure paintings. Corot almost never exhibited…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (The Millinery Shop) 1879–1886 Oil on canvas, 100 × 110.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Of at least fifteen pastels, drawings, and paintings that Edgar Degas created on this subject during the 1880s, The…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1882 Pastel on paper, 75.5 x 85.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Degas, who always regarded himself as a realist painter, strove to depict the reality around him in his works and chiefly…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de Nini Lopez (Portrait of Nini Lopez) 1876 Oil on canvas, 54 x 39 cm Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre See also: • López, Nini
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Joueuse de guitare (The guitar player) c.1896 Oil on canvas, 55 × 46 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne