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…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Manet dans le Jardin de Bellevue (Madame Manet in the Garden at Bellevue) 1880 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 60.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite the seemingly rapid brushwork and the summary treatment of detail,…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of two versions by Manet of Delacroix‘s celebrated painting…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le bonheur de vivre (The Joy of Life) 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 176.5 x 240.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia This monumental canvas, which once hung in the famous collection of Gertrude and Leo Stein, is one of the watershed…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) L’Atelier rouge (The Red Studio) 1911 Oil on canvas, 181 x 219.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2013 Succession H. Matisse, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York “Where I got the color red—to be…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Madras Rouge (Red Madras Headdress) 1907 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia This striking portrait represents Amelie Matisse, the artist’s wife, who stares down the viewer with a penetrating gaze. Amelie modeled frequently for…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat) 1905 Oil on canvas, 80.65 x 59.69 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco See also: • Matisse-Parayre, Amélie Noellie (1872-1958)
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…
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…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 39.1 x 31.6 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown When Renoir made this self-portrait in 1875, his paintings were bringing in little income. The artist presents himself with unkempt hair and beard, yet smartly…