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Camille au métier (1875)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Camille au métier (Madame Monet Embroidering) 1875 Oil on canvas, 65.5 × 56 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Though Monet preferred painting in the open air, for this work he brought his easel indoors to capture his first wife, Camille…

Fille avec chien (1873)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Fille avec chien (Girl with Dog) 1873 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 45.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Painted a year before the first impressionist exhibition in Paris, this canvas has all the characteristics that would become associated with the…

Cyprès et maisons à Cagnes (1919)

Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Cyprès et maisons à Cagnes (Cypresses and Houses at Cagnes) 1919 Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia See also: • Cagnes-sur-Mer (France)

Les Joueuses de dominos (1921)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Les Joueuses de dominos (Domino Players) 1921 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Painted during Matisse‘s fourth sojourn in Nice, this scene captures an easy afternoon of games, with the artist’s daughter, Marguerite, on the…

Madame Cézanne au chapeau vert (1891-1892)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne au chapeau vert (Madame Cézanne with Green Hat) 1891–1892 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81.3 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Cézanne painted at least 29 portraits of his wife, Marie-Hortense Fiquet. Here she appears in a green upholstered…

Irises (1889)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Irises (F 608, JH 1691) 1889 Oil on canvas, 74.3 × 94.3 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles In May 1889, after episodes of self-mutilation and hospitalization, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. There,…

Ferme en Provence (1888)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Ferme en Provence (Farmhouse in Provence) 1888 Oil on canvas 46.1 x 60.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington F 565, JH 1443 Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888, the landscape covered with snow. But it…

Self-portrait with palette (1889)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-portrait with palette 1889 Oil on canvas 57.79 × 44.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington F 626, JH 1770 Vincent van Gogh painted 36 self-portraits. This was one of his last. Made at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole…

Self-Portrait (1912)

Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Self-Portrait 1912 Watercolor over graphite on light brown wove japan paper, 34.9 x 25.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington