Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Jardin de l’artiste à Vétheuil (The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil) 1881 Oil on canvas, 151.5 x 121 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A small child stands facing us on a sun-dappled path that runs up the center…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Portrait de Jeanne Wenz (Portrait of Jeanne Wenz) 1886 Oil on canvas, 80.7 × 59.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this portrait when he was only 22 years old and still an art…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme prenant du chocolat (Cup of Chocolate) c.1912 Oil on canvas, 54.1 x 65.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Renoir painted this canvas years after he had moved away from impressionism, when he was living in the rural countryside of…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Stable at Cuenca 1903 Oil on canvas, 57.2 x 72.1 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington See also: • Cuenca (España)
Derain, André (1880-1954) Portrait d’Alice Derain (Portrait of Alice Derain) 1920–1921 Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 73.5 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris Derain met Alice Géry, then married to the young mathematician and Bergson enthusiast Maurice Princet, in the autumn of…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le Peintre dans son atelier (The Painter and His Model) 1916–1917 Oil on canvas, 146.5 x 97 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris The window in the artist’s studio is both a crossing point and a metaphor for painting.…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne en bleu (Madame Cézanne in Blue) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 74.1 × 61 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Paul Cézanne produced more than 40 painted portraits of his wife, Hortense Fiquet, during their roughly three decades…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Casa de locos (Madhouse) after 1794 Oil on wood, 44.5 × 69.5 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna Compare: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Corral de locos 1794 Meadows Museum, Dallas
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) L’Oise à Pontoise au temps gris (The Oise in Pontoise in gray weather) 1876 Oil on canvas, 53.5 x 64 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Pissarro believed that ‘Everything is suitable for drawing, everything!’ He was true to…
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…