Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Rêverie (Portrait of Jeanne Samary) 1877 Oil on canvas, 59 x 47 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow See also: • Samary, Jeanne (1857-1890)
La Rêverie (1877)
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Jeune femme au chat (c.1875)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme au chat (Woman with a Cat) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 56 x 46.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the waist up, a young woman wearing white sits in an armchair cuddling a…
L’odalisque (1870)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) L’odalisque (Odalisque) 1870 Oil on canvas, 69.2 x 122.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman wearing a sheer white blouse, short red and gold vest, and full-legged, patterned pants cinched below the knee lies back…
Une serveuse au restaurant Duval (c.1875)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Une serveuse au restaurant Duval (Waitress at Duval’s Restaurant) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 71.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The title Renoir conferred on this painting is untraced. By 1885 it was on…
Tilla Durieux (1914)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880-1971) 1914 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In July 1914, just prior to the outbreak of World War I, the famous German actress Tilla Durieux…
Madame Édouard Bernier (1871)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Édouard Bernier 1871 Oil on canvas, 78.1 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Marie-Octavie Bernier was the wife of the commander of Renoir‘s regiment during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). In the spring of…
Les Filles de Catulle Mendès (1888)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Filles de Catulle Mendès (Daughters of Catulle Mendès) 1888 Oil on canvas, 161.9 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hoping to recapture the success he had achieved with Madame Georges Charpentier and Her…
Staalmeesters (1662)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Staalmeesters (The Wardens of the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild, Known as ‘The Syndics’) 1662 Oil on canvas, 191.5 x 279 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam After suffering financial difficulties in the 1650s, Rembrandt moved to a rental house on the Rozengracht.…
The Jewish Bride (1665-1669)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Isaac and Rebecca, known as ‘The Jewish Bride’ c.1665–1669 Oil on canvas, 121.5 x 166.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam To prevent being killed and having his wife captured by King Abimelech, Isaac concealed his love for Rebecca by pretending…
A Woman Holding a Pink (1656)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Woman Holding a Pink 1656 Oil on canvas, 103 x 86 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to…