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A Girl with a Watering Can is an 1876 Impressionist oil painting on canvas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The work was apparently painted in Claude Monet's famous garden at Argenteuil, and may portray one of the girls in Renoir's neighborhood in a blue dress holding a watering can. [1] The painting is in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C..
Mountains and Sea is a 1952 painting by American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler. [2] [3] Painted when Frankenthaler was 23 years old, it was her first professionally exhibited work. [4] Though initially panned by critics, Mountains and Sea later became her most influential and best known canvas. [5] [6]
Renoir depicts two young girls at a piano in a bourgeois home, one in a white dress with blue sash seated playing and one in a pink dress standing. Renoir completed three additional versions of this composition in oil for collectors; the Luxembourg version is now housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, [2] the Robert Lehman Collection version is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, [3 ...
The painting shows a nude woman lying on the edge of a rocky sea shore, with her head turned to gaze backward over her shoulder towards the viewer. Waves are breaking in the background. The Pearl and the Wave was the subject of contemporary curiosity. [1] The painting was met with praise from art critics for its technique and distinguishing ...
Christina's World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth and one of the best-known American paintings of the mid-20th century. It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an incline position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house. [1]
Maria covers her face with her hand against the sun shining in front and seems to be reading a book lying in front of her on the meadow. The mountains of the Bavarian Prealps are shown in the background . The light colors are applied with a broad brushstroke. Instead of a lifelike reproduction, Marc captures the mood of the scene.
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Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon is an 1888 oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. The name of the model is unknown but she can also be seen in other Renoir works such as the young woman splashing the others in Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir, 1887).