Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe (In a Cafe or Absinthe) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 92 x 68.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Unlike his Impressionist friends, Degas was an essentially urban painter, who liked to paint the enclosed…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Une Mendiante romaine (A Roman Beggar Woman) 1857 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 75.2 cm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Dans la serre (In the Conservatory) 1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 115 x 150 cm Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin In June 1896, Max Liebermann and Hugo von Tschudi were together in Paris. Tschudi, who had only been director of…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Manet 1874–1876 Oil on canvas, 60.6 x 50.8 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Manet met his future wife, Suzanne Leenhoff, in 1850, when she arrived in his parents’ household as a piano teacher. Before their marriage, Suzanne…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Déjeuner dans l’atelier (Luncheon in the Studio) 1868 Oil on canvas, 118.3 x 154 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich The title of the painting, “Le déjeuner dans l’atelier”, distracts from the fact that this is a portrait of…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Mademoiselle Claus (Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus) 1868 Oil on canvas, 115.7 x 72.8 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford After twice failing the entrance exam to train as a naval officer, Édouard Manet (1832–83) went to Paris to pursue…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Luxe, calme et volupté (Luxury, Calm and Pleasure) 1904 Oil on canvas, 98.5 x 118.5 x 2.2 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris © Succession H. Matisse, Paris Luxe, calme et volupté testifies to the work Henri Matisse…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat) 1905 Oil on canvas, 80.65 x 59.69 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco See also: • Matisse-Parayre, Amélie Noellie (1872-1958)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de l’artiste (Self-Portrait) 1879 Oil on canvas, 18.8 x 14.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de la mère de Renoir (Portrait of Renoir’s Mother) 1860 Oil on canvas, 45 x 38 cm Private collection See also: • Merlet, Marguerite (1807-1896)