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    Portrait of William Sisley is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created in 1864 during his early Salon and Fontainebleau...
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    1860s under the tutelage of Charles Gleyre, where he studied alongside prominent figures such as Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. They would form close ties...
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    van Gogh painted a self-portrait in oil on canvas in September 1889. The work, which may have been Van Gogh's last self-portrait, was painted shortly before...
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    The Angelus (painting) (category Paintings of people)
    a basket of potatoes to say a prayer, the Angelus, that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon marks the end of a day's work...
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    or Portrait of Artist's Mother, is a painting in oils on canvas created by the American-born painter James McNeill Whistler in 1871. The subject of the...
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    Bedroom in Arles (category Paintings of Arles by Vincent van Gogh)
    friends Eugène Boch and Paul-Eugène Milliet. The portrait of Eugène Boch is called The Poet and the portrait of Paul Eugène Milliet is called The Lover. In...
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    of the painter Ernest Duez, the singer and collector Jean-Baptiste Faure, and the painter and collector Étienne Moreau-Nélaton. It became property of...
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    Portrait of Dr. Gachet is one of the most revered paintings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It depicts Dr. Paul Gachet, a homeopathic doctor and...
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    portraits. "Praised as a portraitist of women, Cabanel expressed that he was particularly adept at painting portraits of American women." A portrait by...
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    The Balcony (Manet) (category Paintings of dogs)
    was the first portrait of Morisot by Manet. Manet adopts a restrained colour palette, dominated by white, green and black, with accents of blue (Guillemet's...
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    field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society;...
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    portraits of the sex workers. These paintings demonstrate a close and intimate observation and compassion towards the subjects, without any sense of sensationalism...
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    Starry Night Over the Rhône (category Paintings of Arles by Vincent van Gogh)
    Starry Night Over the Rhône, is one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of Arles at night. It was painted on the bank of the Rhône that was only a one or two-minute...
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    L'Absinthe (redirect from Glass of Absinthe)
    general view of such Victorians as Sir William Blake Richmond and Walter Crane when shown the painting in London. That reaction was typical of the age, revealing...
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    French state in 1894 by the painter and collector Gustave Caillebotte. List of paintings by Claude Monet "Google entry". "Joconde entry". "Catalogue entry"...
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    Bal du moulin de la Galette (category Paintings of Montmartre)
    top two most expensive artworks ever sold, together with van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, which was also purchased by Saito. Saito caused international...
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    Pierre-Auguste Renoir (category French portrait painters)
    Lise Sewing, 1866, Dallas Museum of Art La Grenouillère, 1868, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm Portrait of Alfred Sisley, 1868, Foundation E. G. Bührle, Zürich...
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    Olympia (Manet) (category Paintings of black people)
    Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt, p. 35; Beruete y Moret, Aureliano. (1922). Goya as portrait painter, p. 190. The Puzzle of Olympia....
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    Dance in the Country (category Paintings of couples)
    commissioned in 1882 by the merchant Paul Durand-Ruel who wanted works on the theme of the ball. He bought it in 1886, exhibited it for the first time in April 1883...
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    Woman with a Cat (Renoir) (category Paintings in the National Gallery of Art)
    National Gallery of Art in 1950. Rubin 2003, pp. 117-118. Rubin, James H. (2003). Impressionist Cats & Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life. Yale...
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    classic elements of the representation of war are present in this depiction. Another dead soldier is seen at the right, and the legs of another one are...
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  • Portrait of Victor Chocquet c. 1876". www.roemerholz.ch. Retrieved 22 January 2019. "Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Portrait of Jeanne Durand-Ruel (Portrait de...
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    American painter James Whistler, a friend of Courbet. Hiffernan was the subject of a series of four portraits by Courbet titled Jo, la belle Irlandaise...
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    The Cradle (Morisot) (category Portraits of women)
    representation of the theme of motherhood in Morisot's work, which the artist would later regularly cultivate. The canvas reveals the influence of Édouard Manet...
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    A Burial at Ornans (category Paintings of dogs)
    two different types of sources. One is seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, such as Banquet of Captain Bicker (1648), Company of Captain Allaert Cloek...
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    Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada (French: Exécution sans jugement sous les rois maures de Grenade) is an oil on canvas painting by...
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    Lefebvre's fellow-Frenchman Frédéric Bartholdi for what became the Statue of Liberty, striking a similar pose, though fully clothed. "La Vérité". musee-orsay...
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    The Mature Age (French: L'Âge mûr), also named Destiny, The Path of Life or Fatality (1894–1900) is a sculpture by French artist Camille Claudel. The work...
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    Gare d'Orsay (category History of Paris)
    governmental building originally built for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The palace was erected over a period of 28 years, from 1810 to 1838, by the architects...
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    The Card Players (category Collection of the Barnes Foundation)
    previous paintings of the genre had illustrated heightened moments of drama, Cézanne's portraits have been noted for their lack of drama, narrative, and...
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