Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Fifre (The Fifer) 1866 Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 97 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Manet, who found in a Spanish manner and subject matter an outlet for his own talent, did not visit Spain and the Prado…
Le Fifre (1866)
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Jeune Homme en costume de majo (1863)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Jeune Homme en costume de majo (Young Man in Costume of Majo) 1863 Oil on canvas, 188 x 124.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York For this image of one of the dashing young Spaniards known as…
Le balcon (1868-1869)
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…
Les Tapis rouges (1906)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Les Tapis rouges (The Red Carpets) 1906 Oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble © Succession H. Matisse Painted in Collioure in 1906, The Red Carpets evokes this pivotal moment when the painting, here…
L’Escargot (1953)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) L’Escargot (The Snail) 1953 Gouache on paper, cut and pasted on paper mounted on canvas, 286.4 x 287 cm Tate Britain, London © Succession Henri Matisse/DACS 2024 After 1948 Matisse was prevented from painting by ill health but, although…
La Raie verte (1905)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Raie verte, Madame Matisse (The Green Stripe, Madame Matisse) 1905 Oil and tempera on canvas, 40.5 x 32.5 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen © Succession H. Matisse, Paris This depiction of the artist’s wife, Amélie, is…
La Fenêtre ouverte, Collioure (1905)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Fenêtre ouverte, Collioure (Open Window, Collioure) 1905 Oil on canvas, 55.25 × 46.04 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Matisse‘s Open Window, Collioure is an icon of early modernism. A small but explosive work, it is celebrated…
Autoportrait (1906)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1906 Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen © Succession H. Matisse/BilledKunst Copydan 2012
Portrait de l’artiste (1879)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de l’artiste (Self-Portrait) 1879 Oil on canvas, 18.8 x 14.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Autoportrait (1876)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1876 Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 57.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In the first flush of major success as an artist, Renoir depicts himself in front of an easel. By 1876, he had participated in the…