La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Diseuse de bonne aventure (The Fortune-Teller) probably 1630s Oil on canvas, 101.9 x 123.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Darting eyes and busy hands create a captivating narrative between otherwise staid figures, each…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) I lastricatori di strade (The Street Pavers) 1914 Oil on canvas, 100 × 100 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boccioni was a member of the Futurists, a group of Italian artists who announced their existence in 1909…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Danse à Bougival (Dance at Bougival) 1883 Oil on canvas, 181.9 x 98.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The open-air cafés of suburban Bougival, a town on the river Seine west of Paris, were popular recreation spots for…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Los segadores (The Harvesters) 1907 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid Like other painters in his circle, Picasso was keen to find new techniques that would enable him to handle…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Moulin de la Galette 1889 Oil on canvas, 88.5 × 101.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago With this painting of the dance hall known as the Moulin de la Galette, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec established his reputation as…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Boulevard des Italiens, matin, effet de soleil (Boulevard des Italiens, Morning, Sunlight) 1897 Oil on canvas, 73.2 x 92.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look down onto a wide, bustling, tree-lined avenue filled with buildings, people, and…
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nue arrangeant ses cheveux (Nude Arranging Her Hair) c.1916 Oil on canvasboard, 104.77 x 75.24 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Suzanne Valadon painted female nudes throughout her career and was one of only a few…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Bath 1891 Soft-ground etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 31.43 x 24.44 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington In 1890, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris held a large-scale exhibition of Japanese prints that…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Diane sortant du bain (Diana leaving her Bath) 1742 Oil on canvas, 57 x 73 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Le Bain de Vénus (The Bath of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 107 x 84.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In Enlightenment France the dedicated search to define truth engendered a re–evaluation of the natural. The belief that…