Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Nature morte aux pivoines blanches et autres fleurs (Still Life with White Peonies and Other Flowers) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 26.5 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Manet played an important role in the transition from realism…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme en blanc lisant (Young Woman in White Reading) 1873 Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 cm National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Renoir began his career as a decorative artist, painting designs on porcelain and fabric. He proceeded…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune femme assise devant la fenêtre, dit L’Eté (Young Woman Sitting in front of the Window, called Summer) 1879 Oil on canvas, 76 x 61 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier This portrait of an elegant young woman, as if buried…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Paysage avec un cheval mort (Landscape with a Dead Horse) 2nd half of the 1850s Oil on canvas, 45 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Its subject marked by the influence of Romanticism is full of mystery.…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1858 Oil on canvas, 40.7 x 32.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Bella au col blanc (Bella with White Collar) 1917 Oil on linen, 149 x 72 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris The writer Bella Rosenfeld, represented here as a giantess, would be Chagall‘s muse throughout her life. Taking up…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Glove c.1640 Oil on canvas, 80 x 66.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The Hermitage’s Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Glove is marked by a rapid spontaneous manner of…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Jeune fille au piano, Ouverture de Tannhaüser (Girl at the Piano, The Overture to Tannhauser) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 57.8 x 92.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Cézanne painted this work at Jas de Bouffan, an estate near…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Morning Glory with Black 1926 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The morning glory rests against a black petunia, seen partially at lower right. O’Keeffe is best known for close-up flower subjects…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) The White Symphony: Three Girls c.1868 Oil on millboard mounted on wood panel, 46.4 x 61.6 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1902.138. This…