Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil 1872 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 59.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Boulevard Héloise, Argenteuil 1872 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven See also: • Boulevard Héloïse (Argenteuil)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) 1876 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 61.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1872 to 1877, Sisley lived along the Seine just west of Paris, an area whose…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 46.2 x 65.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bougival (France)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne (The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne) 1872 Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Recently built, state-of-the-art bridges, emblematic of modernity, appear in a number of Sisley’s paintings of the 1870s…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Violiniste (The Fiddler) 1912–1913 Oil on linen tablecloth, 196.5 x 166.5 x 6.5 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Marc Chagall completed The Violinist shortly after moving from St. Petersburg to Paris. It is a good example of the…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1881 Pastel on paper, 69.2 x 69.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1874 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work and its variant in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Niccolini-Cowper (The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna) 1508 Oil on panel, 80.7 x 57.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Inscription: center right on border of Madonna’s bodice: MDVIII.R.V.PIN (1508 Raphael of Urbino painted it) A woman holds and looks toward…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Fornarina (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1520 Oil on panel, 87 x 63 cm Palazzo Barberini, Roma The subject of this portrait, according to tradition, was Raphael’s inspirational muse and mistress: Margherita Luti, the daughter of a baker in…