Tag: seated

Portrait d’homme (c.1866)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 64.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In this enigmatic painting, an unidentified man in modern bourgeois attire sits in a chair among cuts of meat. A…

Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère (1878)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère (The Bar at the Folies-Bergère) 1878 Watercolor on paper, 31.8 x 19.7 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Un bar aux Folies Bergère 1882 Courtauld Institute, London     See also: • Folies Bergère | Paris (France)

Les Vignes à Cagnes (1908)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Vignes à Cagnes (The Vineyards at Cagnes) 1908 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 55.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Here, Pierre-Auguste Renoir depicts a woman reading beneath an olive tree on his estate near Cagnes, in the…

Venetian Bead Stringers (1880 or 1882)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Venetian Bead Stringers 1880 or 1882 Oil on canvas, 66.99 x 78.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo John Singer Sargent was fond of making studies in watercolor or oil and often sketched the everyday scenes or…

Petit nu bleu (c.1878-1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Petit nu bleu (Little Blue Nude) c.1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 38.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During the late 1870s Pierre-Auguste Renoir began applying Impressionist theory to the rendering of the human figure—a process that…

L’Ambitieuse (1883-1885)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman) 1883–1885 Oil on canvas, 142.24 x 101.6 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman), also referred to as The Reception, belongs to a series of fifteen large paintings that James Tissot executed between…

Femme cousant (c.1879)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Femme cousant (Woman Sewing) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 65.405 x 54.61 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo One of the few female painters associated with Impressionism, Berthe Morisot created a niche for herself with instinctive paintings of domestic…