Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme en gris (Woman in Gray) 1942 Oil on panel, 99.7 x 81 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Throughout his career, Pablo Picasso remained devoted to rendering the human face and figure with varying degrees of naturalism, likeness, and…
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…
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)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Vignes à Cagnes (The Vineyards at Cagnes) 1908 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 55.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Here, Pierre-Auguste Renoir depicts a woman reading beneath an olive tree on his estate near Cagnes, in the…
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Portrait de madame Paul Guillaume (Portrait of Madame Paul Guillaume) c.1928 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme au tambourin (Woman with Tambourine) 1925 Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Femme au violon (Woman with Violin) 1921–1922 Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme nue dans un paysage (Female Nude in a Landscape) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris 1888 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 54.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Two plumes of white steam rise from an unseen boat on the river Seine, signs of modern life juxtaposed with the…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Venetian Bead Stringers 1880 or 1882 Oil on canvas, 66.99 x 78.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo John Singer Sargent was fond of making studies in watercolor or oil and often sketched the everyday scenes or…