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Galerie Goupil & Cie

French, est. 1827 - renamed 1884

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Dominated by tones of red and fire orange, this nearly square painting shows a seated woman leaning forward in a high-backed chair, holding a round, flat, leaf-shaped fan. She sits to our left facing our right in profile, so the back of the chair is cropped by the left edge of the composition. The coral-red wall behind the woman spans the width of the painting, and the skirt of her long ruby-red dress extends almost to the bottom right corner of the canvas. Her brown hair is pulled up, and her face is in shadow. The flat disk of the fan rests on its edge on her lap, almost at the center of this painting. A few objects cropped by the right edge of the painting break up the suffused red palette, including a black sculpture of a person with arms raised overhead, a footstool, and a triangular white form, perhaps a lamp shade.
Edgar Degas, Madame Camus, 1869/1870, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.121

Madame Camus

Edgar Degas · 1869/1870 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.121

Shown from the knees up, a woman stands facing us as she turns her head to look off to our right in this vertical portrait painting. The woman has pale, peachy skin, deeply shadowed, hooded eyes, and a straight nose. Shadows fill the hollow of her high cheekbones, and she has a thin face. Her black hair is plaited and tied up and back under brown bands. Earrings hang from each ear, and she wears two strands of white and gray pearls and three red necklaces. Her shoulders slope down, and her arms hang by her sides. The garnet-red bodice of her dress is cut low over a white undergarment. Red straps loop up over her mostly bare shoulders. Sapphire-blue sleeves leave the shoulders exposed and have black bands at the cuffs, which fall short of her wrists. An apron tied around her waist is loosely painted with deep red flowers and dark green leaves against a parchment-brown background. Her long skirt is midnight blue in the shadows. She holds a shimmering object in her right hand, to our left, and rests her other hand on the brown stone wall that runs behind her thighs. A tree edges into the scene along the right, and a few white stucco houses with flat, red roofs cluster on a rocky hill in the distance behind the woman, to our left. The cliffs span most of the background and end in a sheer face near the right edge of the canvas. The sky is tinged with peach at the horizon glimpsed at the foot of the cliff but is mostly steely gray. The artist signed the lower left corner, “COROT.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Agostina, 1866, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.108

Agostina

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1866 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.108

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The Café Singer

Romà Ribera Cirera · 1876 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2015.19.46

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The Naturalists

Jehan Georges Vibert · late 1870s · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.165

Honoré Daumier, Actor Posing in Front of a Mirror, 1870s?, pen and black ink with crayon and watercolor on heavy laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3242

Actor Posing in Front of a Mirror

Honoré Daumier · 1870s? · pen and black ink with crayon and watercolor on heavy laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3242

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The Watering Place

Christian Adolf Schreyer · n.d. · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.116

Jules Breton, The Cliff (La Falaise), 1874, oil on canvas, Gift of Eric, Nicole, Elijah, Elodie and Luke Weider, 2024.146.1

The Cliff (La Falaise)

Jules Breton · 1874 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2024.146.1