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Aux Courses, Le Départ (c.1860-1862)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux Courses, Le Départ (At the Races: The Start) c.1860–1862 Oil on canvas, 33 x 47 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Degas often depicted horse racing, producing forty-five oil paintings featuring the subject. This early work, with…

Madame Pierre Henri Renoir (1870)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Pierre Henri Renoir 1870 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA This is one of two pendant portraits that Renoir painted of his elder brother, Pierre Henri, and his wife, Blanche-Marie Blanc…

Portrait de Victor Chocquet (c.1876)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de Victor Chocquet c.1876 Oil on canvas, 46 × 36 cm Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’, Winterthur See also: • Chocquet, Victor (1821-1891)

Victor Chocquet (c.1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Victor Chocquet c.1875 Oil on canvas, 53.02 x 43.5 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA An employee at the Ministry of Finance, Victor Chocquet (1821–1891) met Degas in 1875, and by the second impressionist exhibition, in 1876, had…

Bouquet printanier (1866)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Bouquet printanier (Spring Bouquet) 1866 Oil on canvas, 104.8 x 80.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA For many French artists during the 1860s, the floral still life persisted as a test of pure painterly ability. This exuberant…

Chanteuse de Café (c.1878)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chanteuse de Café / Chanteuse au Gant (Café Singer / Singer with a Glove) c.1878 Pastel on canvas, 53.2 x 41 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Because pastel paints can fade, this extraordinary work can be exhibited only…

La chanteuse en vert (c.1884)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La chanteuse en vert (Singer in Green) c.1884 Pastel on light blue laid paper, 60.3 x 46.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A sale catalogue of 1898 evocatively described the performer pictured in this pastel: “Skinny…

Vue de Bougival (1873)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vue de Bougival (View of Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 57.15 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee View of Bougival epitomizes the characteristics that would come to define Pierre Auguste Renoir’s special contributions to the Impressionist…