LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE:
JULY 28, 1830
Author: Eugene Delacroix
Date: 1830
Place: Île-de-France, France
Now presented: Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Medium: Oil on canvas
On the painting of Eugene Delacroix we see a woman carrying the Revolutionary flag as an allegorical figure of Liberty.
Date: 1830
Place: Île-de-France, France
Now presented: Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Medium: Oil on canvas
On the painting of Eugene Delacroix we see a woman carrying the Revolutionary flag as an allegorical figure of Liberty.
PLOWING IN THE NIVERNAIS:
THE DRESSING OF THE VINES
Author: Rosa Bonheur
Date: 1849
Place: Paris, France
Now presented: Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Bonheur became so famous that in 1865 she received France's highest award, membership in the Legion of Honor, becoming the first woman to be awarded its Grand Cross.
Date: 1849
Place: Paris, France
Now presented: Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Bonheur became so famous that in 1865 she received France's highest award, membership in the Legion of Honor, becoming the first woman to be awarded its Grand Cross.
WOMAN IN A LOGE
Author: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1879
Place: Paris, France
Now presented: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on canvas
Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of well-off women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
Date: 1879
Place: Paris, France
Now presented: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on canvas
Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of well-off women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
READING
(PORTRAIT OF EDMA MORISOT)
Author: Berthe Morisot
Date: 1873
Place: Paris, France
Now presented: Cleveland Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on fabric
Morisot painted what she experienced on a daily basis. Her paintings reflect the 19th-century cultural restrictions of her class and gender. She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.
Date: 1873
Place: Paris, France
Now presented: Cleveland Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on fabric
Morisot painted what she experienced on a daily basis. Her paintings reflect the 19th-century cultural restrictions of her class and gender. She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.
ON THE TERRACE AT SEVRES
Author: Marie Bracquemond
Date: 1880
Place: Paris, France
Now presented: Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva
Medium: Oil on canvas
Marie Bracquemond was a French Impressionist artist described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.
Date: 1880
Place: Paris, France
Now presented: Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva
Medium: Oil on canvas
Marie Bracquemond was a French Impressionist artist described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.
Cover photo: Central Park, New York, USA