Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Woman in Monsieur Forest’s Garden (1891) captures a quiet, natural portrait of Honorine in Montmartre, blending plein-air light with an intimate study of character and mood.
Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles
The Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano highlights a Byzantine-style mosaic necklace whose debated origins—ancient or 19th-century revival—reflect Venice’s enduring fascination with Byzantine artistry and Murano craftsmanship.
Camille Pissarro Flower Arrangements
Camille Pissarro, a central figure in Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, pioneered modern landscape painting through his lifelong commitment to capturing rural life, light, and everyday scenes across all eight Impressionist exhibitions.
Joseph Karl Stieler’s Portrait of Katerina “Rosa” Botsaris
Katerina “Rosa” Botsaris, famed for her beauty and noble heritage, became Queen Amalia’s lady-in-waiting and was immortalized by Joseph Karl Stieler in Bavaria’s Gallery of Beauties.
Marie Euphrosyne Spartali-Stillman
On International Women’s Day, Marie Spartali Stillman, a Pre-Raphaelite artist and celebrated beauty, stands as a symbol of women’s artistic achievement and cultural presence in 19th-century London.
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Edgar Degas
Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen combines wax, fabric, and real hair over a complex armature, creating a strikingly lifelike sculpture that blurred the boundaries between art, realism, and theatrical illusion.
The Princess from the Land of Porcelain by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Whistler’s Princess from the Land of Porcelain reimagines Western portraiture through Japanese and Chinese aesthetics, portraying Christina Spartali in exotic costume amid porcelain-inspired decor, blending beauty, fantasy, and cross-cultural artistic influence.
Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon rose from poverty in Montmartre to become a model for major artists and later a pioneering painter, known for bold nudes and powerful, psychologically charged self-portraits and family scenes.
Five O’Clock Tea with Mary Stevenson Cassatt
Mary Cassatt’s Five O’Clock Tea (1880) depicts an intimate Parisian domestic ritual, capturing refined bourgeois women at leisure in a modern interior, with subtle Impressionist attention to everyday life and atmosphere.
Pissarro’s Basket of Pears
Camille Pissarro’s Basket of Pears (1872, Pontoise) is a luminous Impressionist still life, evoking rural simplicity and the quiet abundance of fruit through subtle light, color, and balanced composition.