Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe (In a Cafe or Absinthe) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 92 x 68.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Unlike his Impressionist friends, Degas was an essentially urban painter, who liked to paint the enclosed…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Un Bureau de coton à La Nouvelle-Orléans (A Cotton Office in New Orleans) 1873 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau See also: • New Orleans, LA (USA)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Monsieur et Madame Édouard Manet 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 65 x 71 cm Kitakyushu Museum of Art, Kitakyushu Degas presented this portrait to his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Manet. Manet looks to be listening to the piano being…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Déjeuner dans l’atelier (Luncheon in the Studio) 1868 Oil on canvas, 118.3 x 154 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich The title of the painting, “Le déjeuner dans l’atelier”, distracts from the fact that this is a portrait of…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix) c.1855 Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 45.72 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Dante et Virgile aux enfers 1822 Musée du Louvre, Paris …
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Luxe, calme et volupté (Luxury, Calm and Pleasure) 1904 Oil on canvas, 98.5 x 118.5 x 2.2 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris © Succession H. Matisse, Paris Luxe, calme et volupté testifies to the work Henri Matisse…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) 1876 Oil on canvas, 131.5 x 176.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris From 1879 to 1894, in the Gustave Caillebotte collection. This painting is doubtless Renoir‘s most…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Diane chasseresse (Diana) 1867 Oil on canvas, 199.5 x 129.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Renoir wrote that he had produced this painting as a study of a nude, the sort of exercise that was a mainstay of…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) 1892 Oil on canvas, 116 x 90 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris In the early 1890s, friends and admirers of Renoir took exception to the fact that the French State had…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Andromède (Andromeda) 1852 Oil on canvas, 33 x 25.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston