Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) L’Homme à femmes (The Ladies’ Man) 1890 Oil on panel, 25 x 16 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia This small oil painting was a study for the cover of L’homme à femmes, a satirical novel by Victor Joze published…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Leçon de musique (The Music Lesson) 1917 Oil on canvas, 245.1 x 210.8 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Matisse set this portrait of his wife, daughter, and two sons in the living room of the family home in…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les Ribaudes (The Ribalds) 1848–1849 Oil on canvas, 128.9 x 96.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Honoré Daumier was one of the greatest caricaturists of the 19th century, creating thousands of keenly observed images of Parisian social types. This…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Famille Henriot (Henriot Family) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 164.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Daytrips to the countryside around Paris became a popular form of leisure during the late 19th century. Renoir alludes to this kind…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Au Cirque Fernando: L’Écuyère (At the Cirque Fernando: The Horsewoman) 1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 161.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This work, set at a circus, captures the tense moment in which a female…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Ballet à l’Opéra de Paris (Ballet at the Paris Opéra) 1877 Pastel over monotype on cream laid paper, 35.2 × 70.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago One of the nineteenth century’s most innovative artists, Edgar Degas often…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) L’invention des monstres (Invention of the monsters) 1937 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 78.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018 Salvador Dalí, Surrealism’s most…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Au Moulin Rouge (At the Moulin Rouge) 1892–1895 Oil on canvas, 123 × 141 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has been associated with the Moulin Rouge since its opening in 1889: the owner…
El Greco (1541-1614) La Asunción de la Virgen (The Assumption of the Virgin) 1577–1579 Oil on canvas, 403.2 × 211.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This painting was the central element of the altarpiece that was El Greco’s first major…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Conversation sous les oliviers (Conversation under the Olive Trees) 1921 Oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Succession H. Matisse / VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection Beneath their tranquil surface, Matisse‘s paintings often conceal a…