Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Une couturière (A Seamstress) 1892 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 53.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis The subject of a woman sewing comes directly from Edouard Vuillard‘s own experience in his mother’s dressmaking shop where, as a…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Personnages dans un intérieur: Le travail (Figures in an Interior: Work) 1896 Glue-based paint on canvas Petit Palais, Paris Work is one of four panels painted by Vuillard for the apartment of Doctor Henri Vaquez (1860-1936) in Paris. This…
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…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Jeune femme cousant dans un jardin (Young woman sewing in a garden) 1880–1882 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 65 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
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…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Camille Monet et un enfant dans le jardin de l’artiste à Argenteuil (Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist’s Garden in Argenteuil) 1875 Oil on canvas, 55.3 x 64.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Camille, Monet‘s…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme cousant (Young Woman Sewing) 1879 Oil on canvas, 61.4 × 50.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The model for this elegant painting of a French bourgeois woman sewing may be Aline Charigot, whom Pierre-Auguste Renoir would…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jean Renoir cousant (Jean Renoir Sewing) 1899–1900 Oil on canvas, 55.4 × 46.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s son Jean, seen here, served as a model for his father from a young age. Renoir so loved…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Lise cousant (Lise Sewing) c.1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 56.52 × 46.36 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Pierre-Auguste Renoir met Lise Tréhot in the spring of 1866, when he painted in and around the Forest of Fontainebleau…