Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le fils prodigue (The Prodigal Son) c.1879 Oil on linen, 106.5 x 146.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le fils prodigue 1879 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Puvis de…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Famille de saltimbanques (Family of Saltimbanques) 1905 Oil on canvas, 212.8 x 229.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A group of three men, two children, and one woman gather in an empty, dusky rose-pink landscape under a…
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Copie de mémoire de l’Erasmus de Holbein (Memory Copy of Holbein’s Erasmus) s.d. Oil on wood, 28.3 x 22.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus writing 1528 Musée du Louvre, Paris …
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Renoir assis (Renoir Seated) 1877 Etching and drypoint, 23.6 x 15.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Théâtre Français (French Theater) c.1856 Oil on wood, 25.9 x 35 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
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…
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,…
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…
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 Cézanne became interested in depicting labourers playing cards in the autumn of 1890. During the 1890s he completed…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Portrait d’une femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1872–1875 Oil on canvas, 56 x 46.1 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Formerly entitled ‘Portrait of the Artist’s Sister, Mme Edma Pontillon(?)’ This woman has just turned her head to…