Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le balcon (The Balcony) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 170 x 125 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris When Manet painted this piece, scenes of bourgeois life were in vogue. Yet The Balcony went against the conventions of the day. All…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Autoportrait au chapeau (Self-Portrait with Cap) 1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 95.4 x 63.4 cm Artizon Museum, Tokyo Manet is best known for depicting the manners and customs of modern Paris, but he was also a master of portrait…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille endormie au chat (Sleeping Girl with a cat) 1880 Oil on canvas, 120.3 x 91.9 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown A young woman dozes in a chair, her striped stockings and plain skirt suggesting her humble background.…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) George W. Vanderbilt 1897–1903 Oil on canvas, 208.6 x 91.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A close friend of Whistler, George Washington Vanderbilt II commissioned this full-length portrait in 1897 to hang in Biltmore House,…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) At the Piano 1858–1859 Oil on canvas, 67.63 x 93.35 cm Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Whistler’s Mother 1871 Oil on canvas, 144.3 x 163 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Although an American by nationality, Whistler divided his career between London and Paris. He enrolled in…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco (The Drunkards, or The Triumph of Bacchus) 1628–1629 Oil on canvas, 165 x 225 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Documentation of payment received by Velázquez in July 1629 for an…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Napoléon Bonaparte, Premier Consul (Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul) 1804 Oil on canvas, 227 x 147 cm Grand Curtius, Liège See also: • Napoleon I
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La familia de Carlos IV (The Family of Carlos IV) 1800 Oil on canvas, 280 x 336 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This portrait of the family of King Carlos IV (1748-1819) was painted in Aranjuez and Madrid…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La Duquesa de Alba (The Duchess of Alba) 1797 Oil on canvas, 210.3 x 149.3 cm Hispanic Society of America, New York Inscribed bottom center and left (in the soil): “Solo Goya / 1797” Francisco de Goya…