Above: Grand Nu (Large Nude), by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1907.
Above: Models, by Georges Seurat, 1887. Seurat later used these as practice studies for his later 1888 painting, also entitled Models.
Artwork inside Musée d'Orsay ...
... 1 Detail from Bal du moulin de la Galette, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876. Renoir was unable to persuade his favourite sixteen-year-old model
Jeanne Samary, (who later become a famous actress at the La Comédie Française theatre) to pose for the painting. It is her sister Estelle
who poses as the principal character in the painting.
... 2 Claude Monet, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1875.
... 3 Torso, Sunlight Effect, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1874.
... 4 Young Girls at the Piano, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1892.
... 5 Colonna Romano, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1913.
... 6 Julie Manet, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1887. Julie Manet was the daughter of impressionist Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, brother of painter
Édouard Manet. She was a frequent model for her mother Morisot, but also Édouard Manet, Renoir and other impressionists, and eventually
became a painter herself.
... 7 Femme au Fichu Vert (Woman in the Green Scarf), by Camille Pissarro, 1893.
... 8 Girl in the Garden, by Mary Cassatt, 1882.
... 9 and 10, two Self Portraits, by Vincent van Gogh ... The first was in 1887 painted in Paris, the second in 1889 while staying in the psychiatric
hospital in Saint-Remy.
... 11 Dr. Gachet, by Vincent Van Gogh, 1890. The doctor painted in his spare time, and van Gogh left Saint-Remy, on the advice of his brother Theo,
for Auvers-sur-Oise hoping the doctor would help him mentally and with his paintings. Van Gogh completed 80 paintings in his 70 days there,
but he shot himself, and died two days later.
... 12 The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, by Vincent van Gogh, 1890.
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