La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Madeleine aux deux flammes (The Penitent Magdalen with two flames) c.1640 Oil on canvas, 133.4 x 102.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York With its extreme contrasts of candlelight and shadow, pared-down geometry, and meditative…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Moulin de la Galette 1889 Oil on canvas, 88.5 × 101.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago With this painting of the dance hall known as the Moulin de la Galette, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec established his reputation as…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme prenant du chocolat (Cup of Chocolate) c.1912 Oil on canvas, 54.1 x 65.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Renoir painted this canvas years after he had moved away from impressionism, when he was living in the rural countryside of…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) L’Italienne (The Italian Woman) 1916 Oil on canvas, 116.7 x 89.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Henri Matisse often painted the same subject in versions that range from relatively realistic to more abstract or schematic. At times the transition…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille en rose dans un paysage (Young girl in pink in a landscape) c.1903 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 31.5 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Rebecca al pozzo (Rebecca at the Well) c.1582–1588 Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 282.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Three men, one woman, and three camels gather around the stone ledge of a well in this horizontal landscape…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La tasse de chocolat (Cup of Chocolate) c.1914 Oil on canvas, 58.3 x 49.4 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Depicted at a café table in a moment of quiet reverie, Renoir‘s model invites us to pause and imagine the swirls…
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Portrait of the artist’s wife, Edith Schiele (Bildnis der Frau des Künstlers, Edith Schiele) 1918 Oil on canvas, 139.8 × 109.8 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna “One evening Schiele was invited with his wife. She was completely covered by…
Klee, Paul (1879-1940) Hat, Lady and Little Table (Hut, Dame und Tischchen) 1932 Gouache and watercolor on plaster-primed burlap, mounted on board, 63.5 x 35.6 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) La pêcheuse (The Fisherwoman) 4th quarter of the 19th century Oil on canvas, 41 x 33 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Dedicated “to Miss Alix Massé, her cordially devoted P. Puvis de Chavannes”.