Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Noce juive, d’après Delacroix (The Jewish Wedding, after Eugène Delacroix) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 83.3 x 64.1 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Noce juive dans le Maroc 1839 Musée du Louvre, Paris See…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Signature du contrat de mariage et danse à la campagne (Marriage Contract and Country Dance) c.1711 Oil on canvas, 47 × 55 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Known as a painter of “fêtes galantes”, Watteau combines a depiction of…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Proposition embarrassante (Embarrasing Proposal) 1715–1716 Oil on canvas, 65 × 84.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Watteau was the first 18th-century French artist to create something totally new in his work, something previously unknown, in despite of the…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le Retour du troupeau (Return of the Drove) c.1768–1770 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 80 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Boudeuse (The Capricious Girl) c.1718 Oil on canvas, 42 × 34 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg When Watteau was elected a member of the French Academy of Arts, a term was specially invented to describe the kind of…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Sainte Famille, Le Repos pendant la fuite en Égypte (Holy Family, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt) 1719 Oil on canvas, 117 × 98 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Acteurs de la Comedie-Francaise (Actors of the Comédie-Française) 1711–1712 Oil on panel, 20 × 25 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Watteau was very fond of the play Les trois cousines (The Three Cousins) by Florent Carton, known as Dancourt,…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Le voleur du nid de moineaux (The Robber of the Sparrow’s Nest) c.1710 Oil on paper laid on canvas, laid on panel, 22.60 x 18.50 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Watteau shows a young couple in an idyllic woodland…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère (Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera) 1717 Oil on canvas, 129 × 194 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Cythera (Greece)
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Mother Combing Her Child’s Hair c.1901 Pastel on gray paper, 64.1 x 80.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York