Tag: watercolor

La présentation de Jésus au Temple (1886-1894)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) La présentation de Jésus au Temple (The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1886–1894 Watercolor on paper, 22.2 x 15.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Forty days after the birth of Jesus, the Holy Family travels to Jerusalem…

The Bridge of Sighs (c.1903-1904)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) The Bridge of Sighs c.1903–1904 Watercolor on paper, 25.4 x 35.6 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Sargent used multiple techniques to create light and highlights in this work. The most obvious is the application of white impasto…

Les deux confrères, Avocats (1865-1870)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les deux confrères, Avocats (The Two Colleagues, Lawyers) 1865–1870 Watercolor on paper, 25.4 × 19.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York The approximately four thousand lithographic caricatures that Honoré Daumier produced were widely circulated in nineteenth-century Paris, where they…

L’Amazone (c.1875-1876)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Amazone (The Equestrienne) c.1875–1876 Watercolor on paper, 20.8 x 27 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In the mid-nineteenth century, the term amazone mockingly referred to fashionable Parisian women who preferred to ride on horseback instead of inside a…

Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère (1878)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère (The Bar at the Folies-Bergère) 1878 Watercolor on paper, 31.8 x 19.7 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Un bar aux Folies Bergère 1882 Courtauld Institute, London     See also: • Folies Bergère | Paris (France)

Thaxter’s Garden (1892)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Thaxter’s Garden 1892 Watercolor on paper, 50.2 x 35.8 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington See also: • Appledore Island, ME (USA) | Thaxter, Celia (1835-1894)