Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Conversation à l’hippodrome (Conversation at the Racetrack) 1882–1885 Pastel on tan paper, 69.53 x 70.01 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Méphistophélès chez Marthe (Mephistopheles at Martha’s House, from Goethe’s Faust) 19th Century Lithograph on paper, 45.6 x 29.6 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester See also: • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Toilette de Vénus (The Toilette of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 108.3 x 85.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boucher executed this painting for Madame de Pompadour, the powerful, official mistress of Louis XV and…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Noce juive dans le Maroc (Jewish wedding in Morocco) 1839 Oil on canvas, 105 x 140.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Noce juive, d’après Delacroix c.1875 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester See also: • Morocco
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…