Tag: Edgar Degas

Gustave Caillebotte (France, 1848–1894) In A Cafe oil on canvas 153 x 114 cm Painted in 1880 Collection of Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France It was at the fifth Impressionist exhibition that Caillebotte presented this café scene, a painting of modern life. A life-size male figure dominates the scene. It's a model who's been painted ...

Edgar Degas (France, 1834–1917) L'Absinthe (The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) oil on canvas 92 × 68 cm. (36.2 × 26.8 in.) Painted in 1875–1876 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Edgar Degas chose as his subject a very popular drink at the end of the 19th century: absinthe. This is how the painting is often ...

Mary Cassatt (America, 1844-1926) Petite fille dans un fauteuil bleu (Little Girl in a Blue Armchair) oil on canvas 89.5 × 129.8 cm (35 1/4 × 51 1/8 in.) painted in 1878 Collection of National Gallery of Art, Washington DC THE SECRET BEHIND THE PAINTING Here's a painting that smells of school vacations, of children ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), famed for his lush depictions of female sensuality. The artist, one of the crucial founders including Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), fellow painters Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), Claude Monet (1840–1926), Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870), Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) and Édouard Manet (1832-1883), fathered Impressionism which ...