Tag: seated

La costurera (c.1640-1650)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La costurera (The Needlewoman) c.1640–1650 Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Diego Velázquez ranks among the greatest masters of seventeenth-century Europe. By 1623, the twenty-four-year-old artist was established as court painter to…

La Liseuse (c.1769)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Liseuse (Young Girl Reading) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.1 x 64.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the lap up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a goldenrod-yellow dress, sits reading a small book,…

La soeur de l’artiste à la fenêtre (1869)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La soeur de l’artiste à la fenêtre (The Artist’s Sister at a Window) 1869 Oil on canvas, 54.8 x 46.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with pale peach skin and light brown hair sits…

Les joueurs de cartes (1892-1896)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Les joueurs de cartes (The Card Players) 1892–1896 Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Compare: Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Joueurs de cartes 1890–1892 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York    

Le Berceau (1872)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Le Berceau (The cradle) 1872 Oil on canvas, 56 x 46.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Morisot, Edma (1839-1921)

Portrait de Madame Edma Pontillon (1871)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Portrait de Madame Edma Pontillon, née Edma Morisot, soeur de l’artiste (Portrait of Madame Edma Pontillon, née Edma Morisot, sister of the artist) 1871 Pastel on paper, 81.5 x 65.8 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Morisot, Edma (1839-1921)

La lecture (1873)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La lecture (Reading) 1873 Oil on fabric, 46 x 71.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Impressionists were mostly men with a few notable exceptions, including Berthe Morisot. While Morisot‘s work includes many of the hallmarks of…

Intérieur au vase étrusque (1940)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Intérieur au vase étrusque (Interior with an Etruscan Vase) 1940 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 108 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland When Matisse‘s Blue Nude was shown in the 1913 Armory show, the violent, unnaturalistic colors and…