Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La maison aux murs lézardés (House with Cracked Walls) 1892–1894 Oil on canvas, 80 x 64.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cézanne often painted abandoned sites near his studio outside Aix, but he depicted this house,…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Casa de Nazareth (Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth) c.1640 Oil on canvas, 165 x 218.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Stories of Christ’s childhood and adolescence became increasingly popular during the Counter-Reformation…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco rezando (Saint Francis in Prayer) c.1638–1639 Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 90.2 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena St. Francis of Assisi, a mystic and poet, was also the founder of the Franciscans, an important mendicant…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Limones, naranjas y rosa (Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose) 1633 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 109.5 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena This extraordinary painting by Zurbarán, the only signed and dated still life by…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Nacimiento de la Virgen (The Birth of the Virgin) c.1627 Oil on canvas, 141 x 108.6 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Just as striking as Zurbarán’s color scheme are his rich, descriptive treatment of the drapery, and…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Prune (Plum Brandy) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 50.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman with light skin sits facing us across a marble-topped table in a café in this vertical painting. Her body…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot 1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 151.4 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable painter James Tissot was Degas’s friend and mentor in the 1860s and early 1870s. Posed in a studio, top hat…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Un Bureau de coton à La Nouvelle-Orléans (A Cotton Office in New Orleans) 1873 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau See also: • New Orleans, LA (USA)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Auguste Manet c.1866 Oil on canvas, 98 x 80 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston This portrait of the artist’s mother, Eugénie-Désirée Fournier Manet (1811-1885), shows her in the widow’s black mourning dress she donned after her…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Manet 1874–1876 Oil on canvas, 60.6 x 50.8 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Manet met his future wife, Suzanne Leenhoff, in 1850, when she arrived in his parents’ household as a piano teacher. Before their marriage, Suzanne…