Abbéma, Louise (1853-1927) Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt (Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt) 1921 Oil on canvas, 87 x 120 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)
Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt (1921)
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The Yellow Room (c.1883-1884)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) The Yellow Room c.1883–1884 Watercolor and gouache on paperboard, 24.8 × 17.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Yellow Room is among Whistler’s most accomplished watercolors, a harmonious “arrangement” of violet and yellow, dating…
La Robe Rose (c.1870)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La Robe Rose (The Pink Dress) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable portraitist Jacques-Emile Blanche witnessed this painting being made at the Villa Fodor, the family home of…
Jeune femme assise sur un canapé (c.1879)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune femme assise sur un canapé (Young Woman Seated on a Sofa) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 80.6 × 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At about the time that Morisot depicted this model in her Paris…
Dora Maar dans un fauteuil (1939)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Dora Maar dans un fauteuil (Dora Maar in an Armchair) 1939 Oil on canvas, 73.3 × 60.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Picasso painted this portrait of Surrealist photographer Dora Maar (1907–1997), then his lover, during…
Femme assise (1894)
La Gandara, Antonio de (1861-1917) Femme assise (Seated Woman) 1894 Lithograph, 26 × 12 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ritratto di un prelato (c.1580)
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Ritratto di un prelato (Portrait of a Prelate) c.1580 Oil on copper, diameter 14 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The daughter of a leading painter in Bologna, Lavinia Fontana became the most famous woman artist of…
L’Auteur fumant, à mi-corps (1897)
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) L’Auteur fumant, à mi-corps (The author smoking, half-length) 1897 Etching, drypoint and roulette, 34.6 × 24.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Léopold Zborowski (1916-1919)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Léopold Zborowski 1916–1919 Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Before moving to Paris in 1906, Modigliani studied in the academies of Florence and Venice, in Italy. In the French capital, he…
Portrait de Mlle Quivoron (1860-1914)
Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Portrait de Mlle Quivoron (Portrait of Mlle Quivoron) 1860–1914 Etching, drypoint, 39 × 26.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is a portrait of Louise, Marie Bracquemond‘s sister, who lived with the artist and her husband…