Tag: Musée d’Orsay

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (France, 1824–1898) Jeune noir à l'épée (Young black boy with a sword) oil on canvas 105 x 73 cm. (41.3 x 28.7 in.) Painted in 1850 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France In Jeune Noir à l'épée (Young Black Man with Sword), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, then barely twenty-six, overturns aesthetic ...

Lewis Wickes Hine (America, 1874–1940) Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in the foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10-year-old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 years in Hazardville, Connecticut 9 August 1917 Collection of ...

Odilon Redon (France, 1840–1916) Le Bouddha (The Buddha) pastel on beige paper 90 x 73 cm. (35 3/8 x 28 3/4 in.) Painted around 1906–1907 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France From the 1890s, at the invitation of his friend Armand Clavaud, Odilon Redon developed a passion for botany, Hinduism and Buddhism. He devoured Paul ...

Marie Bashkirtseva (Russia, 1858–1884) Un meeting (A meeting) oil on canvas 193 x 177 cm. (75.9 x 69.6 in.) Painted in 1884 Collection of Musée d'Orsay At the end of the 19th century, women could cultivate themselves, admire and copy works of art, but were deemed incapable of creating. And in the French capital, the ...

Charles Hugo (France, 1826–1871) Victor Hugo dans le rocher des Proscrits (Victor Hugo dans le rocher des Proscrits) Around 1853 Salted paper print from a collodion glass negative 10.3 x 6.3 cm. Don Mme Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, 1984 Collection of Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France In shaping his own image as the leading opponent of ...

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 ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France, 1841-1919) Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) oil on canvas 131 × 175 cm. (52 × 69 in.) painted in 1876 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Rosa Bonheur (France, 1822–1899) Labourage nivernais (Ploughing in Nevers) oil on canvas 133 × 260 cm. (52 × 100 in.) painted in 1849 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Rosa Bonheur was an exceptional painter who broke all the codes of her time. She specialized in animal painting, a genre hitherto reserved for men. It ...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864–1901) Jeanne avril dansant (Jane Avril Dancing) Oil on cardboard 85 x 45 cm. (33.46 x 17.71 in.) painted circa 1892 Collection of Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France While Toulouse-Lautrec is accustomed to painting Montmartre cabaret dancers such as La Goulue, Jane here surprises us with the particular movement of her legs, ...

Gustave Courbet (France, 1819-1877) L'Atelier du peintre (The Painter's Studio) oil on canvas 361 cm × 598 cm (142 in × 235 in) painted in 1855 Collection of Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France In this painting of gigantic dimensions (3.61 by 5.98 meters), the realist painter provokes his contemporaries by adopting the format of a ...