Tag: Washington

En route pour la pêche (1878)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish) 1878 Oil on canvas, 78.7 × 122.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington En route pour la pêche depicts a scene in the quiet fishing village of Cancale,…

La costurera (c.1640-1650)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La costurera (The Needlewoman) c.1640–1650 Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Diego Velázquez ranks among the greatest masters of seventeenth-century Europe. By 1623, the twenty-four-year-old artist was established as court painter to…

La Rochelle (1930)

Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La Rochelle 1930 Watercolor over black chalk on paper, 29.7 x 45.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Les Tours Vertes, La Rochelle 1913 Private collection     See also: • La Rochelle (France)

Baby (1917-1918)

Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Baby (Cradle) 1917–1918 Oil on canvas, 110.9 x 110.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A baby nestles in a mass of frilly white fabric atop a colorful patchwork, perhaps a pile of quilts, against a sage and…

La Liseuse (c.1769)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Liseuse (Young Girl Reading) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.1 x 64.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the lap up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a goldenrod-yellow dress, sits reading a small book,…

La soeur de l’artiste à la fenêtre (1869)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La soeur de l’artiste à la fenêtre (The Artist’s Sister at a Window) 1869 Oil on canvas, 54.8 x 46.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with pale peach skin and light brown hair sits…