Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Deux femmes (Two Women) 1922 Oil on canvas, 90.8 x 58.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Fernand Léger originated a distinct cubist style in the twentieth century. In the early 1920s he both embraced and influenced the…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Conversazione tra le rovine (Conversation among the Ruins) 1927 Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 97.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A man, woman, a small table, chair, and two fragments of walls float on an octagonal, straw-colored…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Saltimbanques errantes (Wandering Saltimbanques) 1847–1850 Oil on wood, 32.6 x 24.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington An older man, a woman, and a child who holds a chair upside-down on his head stand near each other in…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) À l’Eglise (In Church) 1855–1857 Oil on wood, 15.2 x 21.7 x 0.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Théâtre Français (French Theater) c.1856 Oil on wood, 25.9 x 35 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Dos mujeres en la ventana (Two Women at a Window) c.1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 125.1 x 104.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Seville‘s most popular painter in the later 17th century was Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. While…
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,…
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…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Deux femmes causant au bord de la mer, Saint Thomas (Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas) 1856 Oil on canvas, 27.7 x 41 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • St Thomas (US Virgin Islands)
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…