Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Sortie du conservatoire (Leaving the Conservatory) 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 187.5 x 117.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Renoir uses subtle body language to convey the flirtatious exchanges among a group of young Parisians gathered outside a music…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Femme aux bas blancs (Woman with White Stockings) 1864 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Traditionally, European painters made the nude subject decorous by presenting it as part of an edifying mythological narrative.…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) The French Breakfast 1910 Oil on canvas, 73 x 50.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection With his personal finances greatly improving and with the proceeds from the sale of four paintings in May, Childe Hassam was…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Retrato de Asensio Julià (Portrait of Asensio Julià) c.1798 Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 41 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The inscription in the bottom left corner of the painting reads: Goya to his friend Asensi. This dedication and…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Bascule (The See-Saw) c.1750–1752 Oil on canvas, 120 x 94.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This canvas forms the pair to a painting in the Toledo Museum of Art entitled Blind Man’s Buff (Le Colin-Maillard). Both were in…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Le duc d’Orléans montrant sa maîtresse (The Duke of Orleans showing his Lover) c.1825–1826 Oil on canvas, 35 x 25.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This signed canvas by Delacroix depicting a literary subject has been dated to around…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Homme assis (Seated Man) 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 54.6 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This canvas is one of a set of plein-air paintings produced by Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence towards the end of his life. In it,…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Nana 1877 Oil on canvas, 154 x 115 cm Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Devant le miroir 1876 Guggenheim Museum, New York
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Suicidé (The Suicide) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm Bührle Collection, Zürich
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La partie de croquet (The Croquet Party) 1871 Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 73 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Partie de Croquet 1873 Städel Museum, Frankfurt