Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Femmes d’Alger dans leur intérieur (Women of Algiers in their interior) 1849 Oil on canvas, 85 × 112 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Paris, entrusted by the artist to the silver statue lottery, around September 1849; acquired from this lottery…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Le héron aux ailes déployées (The Heron with Outstretched Wings) 1867 Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Deposit of the Jeu de Paume museum, 1979 (inv. D79.1.5) Compare: Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Nature morte au héron 1867…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Trophée de chasse (Hunting Trophy) 1862 Oil on canvas, 104 x 75 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Work recovered by the Allies in 1945, MNR 213; Deposited by the Musée d’Orsay, 2006. Monet seems to have had a particular liking…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Le Palais des Papes, Avignon, Soir (The Papal Palace, Avignon, Evening) 1909 Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 91.9 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Avignon (France)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Nature morte à la bouteille et à la carafe, au pain et au vin (Still Life with Bottle, Carafe, Bread, and Wine) c.1862–1863 Oil on canvas, 39.69 × 59.85 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Provenance: Gift of the…
Gachet, Paul (1828-1909) La Vieille Route à Auvers-sur-Oise (The Old Road in Auvers-sur-Oise) 1881 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 54.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Intérieur rouge (Red Interior) 1902 Oil on tan paper mounted to cradled panel, 37.1 x 51.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Vuillard never married, and he lived with his mother, a seamstress, for her entire life. He often depicted…
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) c.1626–1628 Oil on canvas, 138.5 × 216 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower left: HORATIVS GENTILESHVS FECIT On the run from Herod, the Holy Family rests…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El almuerzo (Luncheon) c.1617 Oil on canvas, 108.5 x 102 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Entered the Hermitage between 1763 and 1796; the collection of Catherine the Great. Diego Velazquez, in whose work Spanish painting reached its zenith,…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Piscine dans un harem (Pool in a Harem) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 62 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Throughout his artistic career Gérome made numerous visits to the Orient -to Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Palestine and Sinai.…