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Title: A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer) Date: ca. 1875 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 39 1/2 x 28 1/8 in. (100.3 x 71.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 Accession Number: 61.101.14 Renoir portrays a waitress who worked at one of several Parisian restaurants established by a butcher named Duval. An 1881 Baedeker guidebook described these "Établissements de Bouillon" as offering a limited and affordable menu to patrons "waited on by women, soberly garbed, and not unlike sisters of charity." Renoir imparted to his comely model an unaffected grace. As he once said, "I like painting best when it looks eternal without boasting about it: an everyday eternity, revealed on the street corner: a servant-girl pausing a moment as she scours a saucepan, and becoming a Juno on Olympus." Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437437

Title: A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer) Date: ca. 1875 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 39 1/2 x 28 1/8 in. (100.3 x 71.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 Accession Number: 61.101.14 Renoir portrays a waitress who worked at one of several Parisian restaurants established by a butcher named Duval. An 1881 Baedeker guidebook described these "Établissements de Bouillon" as offering a limited and affordable menu to patrons "waited on by women, soberly garbed, and not unlike sisters of charity." Renoir imparted to his comely model an unaffected grace. As he once said, "I like painting best when it looks eternal without boasting about it: an everyday eternity, revealed on the street corner: a servant-girl pausing a moment as she scours a saucepan, and becoming a Juno on Olympus." Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437437

Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer) Title: Reclining Nude Date: 1883 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002 Accession Number: 2003.20.12 Gallery Label: Nudes and the grand tradition of classical art preoccupied Renoir in the 1880s. In this painting, he paid homage to Ingres's "Grande Odalisque" (Musée du Louvre, Paris), although he transformed Ingres's cool courtesan into a healthy, pink-cheeked girl, and the harem into an Impressionist landscape reminiscent of the Channel coast. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer) Title: Reclining Nude Date: 1883 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002 Accession Number: 2003.20.12 Gallery Label: Nudes and the grand tradition of classical art preoccupied Renoir in the 1880s. In this painting, he paid homage to Ingres's "Grande Odalisque" (Musée du Louvre, Paris), although he transformed Ingres's cool courtesan into a healthy, pink-cheeked girl, and the harem into an Impressionist landscape reminiscent of the Channel coast. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer) Title: Reclining Nude Date: 1883 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002 Accession Number: 2003.20.12 Gallery Label: Nudes and the grand tradition of classical art preoccupied Renoir in the 1880s. In this painting, he paid homage to Ingres's "Grande Odalisque" (Musée du Louvre, Paris), although he transformed Ingres's cool courtesan into a healthy, pink-cheeked girl, and the harem into an Impressionist landscape reminiscent of the Channel coast. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Shoes, 1888 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) Oil on canvas 18 x 21 3/4 in. (45.7 x 55.2 cm) Signed (lower left): Vincent Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1992 (1992.374) Van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes or boots during his Paris period. This picture, painted later in Arles, evinces a unique return to the earlier motif. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1992.374

Shoes, 1888 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) Oil on canvas 18 x 21 3/4 in. (45.7 x 55.2 cm) Signed (lower left): Vincent Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1992 (1992.374) Van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes or boots during his Paris period. This picture, painted later in Arles, evinces a unique return to the earlier motif. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1992.374

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906) Title: Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses Date: ca. 1890 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951 Accession Number: 51.112.1 On View Gallery Label: Cézanne rarely painted flowering plants or fresh-cut bouquets, which were susceptible to wilting; purportedly, he preferred artificial flowers that could withstand his protracted painting sessions. All told, he included potted plants only in three still lifes, two views of the conservatory at Jas de Bouffan, and about a dozen exquisite watercolors made over the course of two decades (from about 1878 to 1906). Cézanne seems to have reserved this particular table, with its scalloped apron and distinctive bowed legs, for three of his finest still lifes of the 1890s. This view of Chinese primroses was once owned by the ardent gardener Claude Monet. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906) Title: Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses Date: ca. 1890 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951 Accession Number: 51.112.1 On View Gallery Label: Cézanne rarely painted flowering plants or fresh-cut bouquets, which were susceptible to wilting; purportedly, he preferred artificial flowers that could withstand his protracted painting sessions. All told, he included potted plants only in three still lifes, two views of the conservatory at Jas de Bouffan, and about a dozen exquisite watercolors made over the course of two decades (from about 1878 to 1906). Cézanne seems to have reserved this particular table, with its scalloped apron and distinctive bowed legs, for three of his finest still lifes of the 1890s. This view of Chinese primroses was once owned by the ardent gardener Claude Monet. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906) Title: Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses Date: ca. 1890 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951 Accession Number: 51.112.1 On View Gallery Label: Cézanne rarely painted flowering plants or fresh-cut bouquets, which were susceptible to wilting; purportedly, he preferred artificial flowers that could withstand his protracted painting sessions. All told, he included potted plants only in three still lifes, two views of the conservatory at Jas de Bouffan, and about a dozen exquisite watercolors made over the course of two decades (from about 1878 to 1906). Cézanne seems to have reserved this particular table, with its scalloped apron and distinctive bowed legs, for three of his finest still lifes of the 1890s. This view of Chinese primroses was once owned by the ardent gardener Claude Monet. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) Title: Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom) Date: 1873 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 39 5/8 in. (62.2 x 100.6 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Livingston Willard, 1926 Accession Number: 26.186.1 On View Gallery Label: This work was painted in Argenteuil, a village on the Seine northwest of Paris that was a favorite gathering place of the Impressionists. The pastel colors of spring and the clear light provided Monet with a pretext for an almost purely chromatic interpretation of nature. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) Title: Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom) Date: 1873 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 39 5/8 in. (62.2 x 100.6 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Livingston Willard, 1926 Accession Number: 26.186.1 On View Gallery Label: This work was painted in Argenteuil, a village on the Seine northwest of Paris that was a favorite gathering place of the Impressionists. The pastel colors of spring and the clear light provided Monet with a pretext for an almost purely chromatic interpretation of nature. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Title: A Washerwoman at Éragny Artist: Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris) Date: 1893 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rodgers, 1964 Accession Number: 64.154.1 Pissarro felt an affinity for the daily rhythms of peasant life that he witnessed around his home in the village of Éragny, not far from Paris. This washerwoman is hard at work, scrubbing linens and clothing in one barrel and rinsing them in another. The artist depicted the surrounding landscape with dappled touches of his brush—a legacy of the Pointillist style that he adopted in the mid-1880s. To suggest the effect of shimmering sunlight, he mixed pure yellow paint into the greens of the grass and trees while the pigment was still wet. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437305

Artist: Alfred Sisley (English, Paris 1839–1899 Moret-sur-Loing) Title: View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant Date: 1876 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 25 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (65.4 x 92.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967 Accession Number: 67.187.103 Gallery Label: For a few years in the mid-1870s, Sisley lived in Marly-le-Roi, a town just west of Paris. He painted numerous views of his surroundings: the grounds of Louis XIV's former estate, local paths and roads, and the nearby Seine. For this painting, which was included in the third Impressionist exhibition, in 1877, Sisley simply walked up the hill from his rented house and selected a northwest view overlooking the town. The building at left was located within the border of neighboring Louveciennes. The lush, manicured grounds to the right of the path belonged to a more extensive property in Marly-le-Roi owned by Robert Le Lubez, an amateur singer and patron of contemporary composers such as Charles-François Gounod and Camille Saint-Saëns. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Artist: Alfred Sisley (English, Paris 1839–1899 Moret-sur-Loing) Title: View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant Date: 1876 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 25 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (65.4 x 92.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967 Accession Number: 67.187.103 Gallery Label: For a few years in the mid-1870s, Sisley lived in Marly-le-Roi, a town just west of Paris. He painted numerous views of his surroundings: the grounds of Louis XIV's former estate, local paths and roads, and the nearby Seine. For this painting, which was included in the third Impressionist exhibition, in 1877, Sisley simply walked up the hill from his rented house and selected a northwest view overlooking the town. The building at left was located within the border of neighboring Louveciennes. The lush, manicured grounds to the right of the path belonged to a more extensive property in Marly-le-Roi owned by Robert Le Lubez, an amateur singer and patron of contemporary composers such as Charles-François Gounod and Camille Saint-Saëns. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Title: Breton Brother and Sister Artist: William Bouguereau (French, La Rochelle 1825–1905 La Rochelle) Date: 1871 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 50 7/8 x 35 1/8 in. (129.2 x 89.2 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 Accession Number: 87.15.32 Based on sketches Bouguereau made while summering in Brittany in the late 1860s, this picture was completed in the artist’s studio in 1871. His young models, posed in traditional Breton costumes, epitomize the ideal of virtuous and attractive peasants living a simple life in close contact with nature. This type of scene was quickly snapped up by American collectors, earning Bouguereau fame and fortune. As one critic explained, "Whoever gets a picture by [him] gets the full worth of his money, in finished painting, first-rate drawing, and a subject and treatment that no well-bred person can … fault." Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435754

Title: Jo, La Belle Irlandaise Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz) Date: 1865–66 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 22 x 26 in. (55.9 x 66 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 Accession Number: 29.100.63 The "beautiful Irishwoman" depicted in this painting is Joanna Hiffernan (born 1842/43), mistress and model of the artist James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), and perhaps subsequently Courbet’s lover. Although dated 1866, the picture was likely undertaken in 1865, when the two men painted together at the French seaside resort of Trouville; Courbet wrote of "the beauty of a superb redhead whose portrait I have begun." He would paint three repetitions with minor variations. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436001