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Henri Matisse. Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
40.5 cm × 32.5 cm (15.9 in × 12.8 in) Location. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. The Green Stripe (also known as The Green Line or Madame Matisse) is an oil painting from 1905 by French artist Henri Matisse of his wife, Amélie Noellie Matisse-Parayre. The title stems from the vertical green stripe down the middle of Madame Matisse's ...
Dutch Golden Age painting. Dimensions. 44.5 cm × 39 cm (17.5 in × 15 in) Location. Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) [1][2] is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. Going by various names over the centuries, it became known by its present title ...
University of Michigan Museum of Art [11] Odalisque à la culotte rayée, reflectée dans la glace: 1923 Lithograph on paper 63.82 cm x 47.63 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [12] Dancer, from the series Ten Dancers (Dix Danseuses) 1925–26 Lithograph on paper 32.7 cm x 50.48 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [13]
La Scapigliata (Italian for 'The Lady with Dishevelled Hair') [n 1] is an unfinished painting generally attributed to the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, and dated c. 1506–1508. Painted in oil, umber, and white lead pigments on a small poplar wood panel, its attribution remains controversial, with several experts ...
The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo [il tʃeˈnaːkolo] or L'Ultima Cena [ˈlultima ˈtʃeːna]) is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1495–1498, housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
The Lady of Shalott an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting, is one of John William Waterhouse's most famous works. It depicts a scene from Tennyson's poem in which the poet describes the plight and the predicament of a young woman, loosely based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from medieval Arthurian legend, who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, isolated under an ...
La Parisienne (English: The Parisian) is an oil painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, completed in 1874 and now displayed at the National Museum Cardiff.The work, which was one of seven presented by Renoir at the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, is often referred to as The Blue Lady (French: La Dame en Bleu) and is one of the centre-pieces of the National Museum's art ...