Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le Baiser dérobé (The Stolen Kiss) c.1760 Oil on canvas, 48.3 x 63.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A masterfully executed, incandescent glow highlights fitful hands and a kiss won in a card game. While Fragonard…
Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Le goûter (The tea in the afternoon) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 79 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Quivoron, Louise (1849-?)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 64.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In this enigmatic painting, an unidentified man in modern bourgeois attire sits in a chair among cuts of meat. A…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte aux fraises (Still Life with Strawberries) 1914 Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 44.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Still-life paintings often suggest a human presence, implying the viewer’s bodily relationship to a tabletop and investing inanimate…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Femme cousant (Woman Sewing) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 65.405 x 54.61 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo One of the few female painters associated with Impressionism, Berthe Morisot created a niche for herself with instinctive paintings of domestic…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Pivoines (Peonies) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 55.3 x 65.7 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Oignons (Onions) 1881 Oil on canvas, 39.1 x 60.6 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Il banchetto di Cleopatra (The Banquet of Cleopatra) 1743–1744 Oil on canvas, 250.3 × 357 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne See also: • Cleopatra (69-30 BC) | Egypt
Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) Nature morte avec du poisson (Still life with fish) 1866 Oil on canvas 63.5 x 81.9 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Lavanda dei piedi (Christ Washing His Disciples’ Feet) c.1545–1555 Oil on canvas, 154.9 × 407.7 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto