Monet painted this piece while spending the summer with his family at Sainte-Andresse, a seaside resort near his hometown of Le Havre. The painting captures the leisurely activities of his family while enjoying a beautiful day together, taking in…
Monet and Renoir brought their easels to La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine river in the summer of 1869. Together, the two captured the leisurely activities of the Parisian people on their canvas.
Monet shared this piece at the first Impressionist Exhibition. It was the target artist Louis Leroy's criticism, in which he complained that the painting was not a complete piece of art. Leroy degraded the painting to a simple sketch, an "impression"…
This portrait of Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, the wife of the comte de la Châtre, was painted by French portrait artist Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun in 1789. Bontemps is wearing a simple, classic white muslin dress, popularized…
18th century portrait artist Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun painted this self portrait in 1790. Vigée Le Brun aimed to show her prestige as the portraitist of the king of France by painting herself in an elegant black dress.
18th century French portrait artist Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun painted this portrait of Anna Ivanovna Tolstaya in 1774, a couple of years before she was commissioned by the French royal family.