Impressionism

Dance at Bougival is a thoroughly contemporary scene painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir of a couple dancing in a café. Their expressions and unified movement mark intimacy. It was painted in 1883 during the middle of his long career and set in Bougival, a French village 15km west of Paris which was a fashionable suburb and […]

Odalisque subtitled ‘The Woman of Algiers’ is an Impressionist painting created in 1870 by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is located in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, United States. Analysis of Renoir’s Odalisque This work belongs to the tradition of the depiction of Oriental or African women by Western artists which was

Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1893 Young Girls by the Water is highly Impressionistic in style, and Renoir’s girls here are blended by his rapid and broad brushstrokes into the surrounding rich greenery. The mood is one of languid daydreaming. Young Girls by the Water by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is in a private collection.

In Bathers on the Beach at Trouville, Impressionist painter Eugene Boudin applies the paint thickly, lending solidity to his bathers who are fully clothed. The reason for this, as Boudin ably conveys with his color palette, is that the weather is rather cold and blustery – the disruption in the sky is evident. Boudin painted

Lola de Valence (or Lola of Valencia) is an 1862 painting by French painter Édouard Manet of a Spanish dancer named Dolores Melea. Analysis of Manet’s Lola de Valence Dolores Melea was in Paris at the time of this Édouard Manet portrait, starring in Mariano Camprubí’s ballet and poses opulently for this picture in a

Homage to Delacroix (or Hommage à Delacroix) is an 1864 group portrait by French artist Henri Fantin-Latour containing a group of his contemporaries surrounding a self-portrait of Eugène Delacroix who died a year prior. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1864. Analysis of Homage to Delacroix Fantin-Latour is pictured with nine other

Children’s Afternoon at Wargemont is an 1884 painting by French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is located in the National Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Analysis of Children’s Afternoon at Wargemont Children’s Afternoon at Wargemont is a distinctly ‘unImpressionist’ work by the so-called Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir which he completed at the height of the Impressionist movement

Madame Monet Wearing a Kimono by French Impressionist painter Claude Monet highlights the European vogue for all things Japanese at the time. The kimono worn by Monet’s wife in this 1875 picture is painted with lavish detail while the face and especially the blonde wig are more loose and Impressionistic. Claude Monet’s Madame Monet Wearing

At the Café Concert: The Song of the Dog was painted in 1877, three years after the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris. In it we can see the Impressionist concern with modern city life and a lack of clarity in terms of perspective and visual effects that go against the conventional demand for realism at

Portrait of Henri-Michel Lévy by French painter Edgar Degas shows his fellow Impressionist artist and friend in his studio during a break from working in 1878. Lévy stands informally in front of a pastoral scene of leisure that contrasts with Degas painting of the realm of work, i.e. Lévy’s studio. In the foreground we can

Rainy Day, Fifth Avenue is a 1916 Impressionist painting by American artist Childe Hassam. This work is in the Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey, United States. Rainy Day, Fifth Avenue Analysis This is one of the famous thirty so-called ‘flag pictures’ painted by American Impressionist Childe Hassam (1859-1935) from 1916 to 1919. It

The road at Wargemont, painted by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1879 keeps with the Impressionist ethic of the division of light into separate and sometimes contrasting effects. Renoir (1841-1919) painted a number of works at Wargemont on the French Normandy coast, bringing a painterly style of expressiveness to this scene which also is faithfully

Examination at the Faculty of Medicine is an unusually somber canvas by the prolific Post-Impressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). It was painted in 1901 which was the last year of his life and, due to a long history of various medical complaints, he developed a knowledge of medicine. The examinee wears the sole light note

French Impressionist painter Claude Monet was 30 years old when he painted The Beach at Trouville. The occasion was his honeymoon in 1870 at the seaside resort Trouville in Normandy, Northwestern France. Monet’s new wife Camille Doncieux is seated on the right of the canvas with an umbrella in her hand while a friend is

This is an 1881 Portrait of Felix Pissarro, the third son of French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie. Analysis of Portrait of Felix Pissarro Felix is seven years old in this sitting and would sit for a number of portraits for his father during his life, with this one arguably being the

The Little Country Maid is an 1882 Impressionist painting by French artist Camille Pissarro. It depicts a scene whereby a young maid sweeps a bourgeois country house, with a young child seated to her right. The house, however, is not that of the increasingly wealthy middle class at the time – this is likely Pissarro’s

French impressionist painter Alfred Sisley painted The Watering Place at Marly-le-Roi around 1875. Marly-le-Roi in Western Paris was the location of the Château de Marly, a royal residence built by Sun King Louis XIV in 1679. Château de Marly ceased being a Royal Palace after the French Revolution in x and was sold to a

Édouard Manet’s The Surprised Nymph is in the tradition of Susanna and the Elders from the book of Daniel, where a young woman is disturbed in her bathing by two elderly men who threaten to claim that Susanna was meeting with a young man unless she has sex with the two men. This topic is

Bunch of Asparagus is an 1880 Impressionist still-life painting by French artist Édouard Manet. It is located in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne in Western Germany. Analysis of Manet’s Bunch of Asparagus The genre of still life was the lowest within the traditional hierarchy of painting but was generally explored to display the skills of

John Russell (1858-1930) moved from his native Australia to Europe as a teenager. His friends included Van Gogh, the sculptor Rodin, and Matisse who credited him with his introduction to color theory. Long forgotten, Russell’s reputation is gradually being restored. The present work Mrs. Russell among the Flowers in the Garden of Goulphar was painted