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Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, also called Portrait of the Artist's Mother

by James McNeill Whistler

1871
Oil on canvas
H. 144.3; W. 162.5 cm

Musee d'Orsay

Paris, France

Whistler, James McNeill 
Jean Guy de Poilloue, Vicomte de Saint Perier (Viscount of Saint Perier)

by John Singer Sargent

1880 or 1883
Oil on canvas
61 x 50.5 cm

Musee d'Orsay

Paris, France

Sargent, John Singer 
Joyance

by Jeanie Gallup Mottet

1925
Oil on Canvas
H. 0.62 ; L. 0.45

Musee d'Orsay

Paris, France

Mottet, Jeanie Gallupnotes
History: unknown mode of acquisition by National Museums; Musee du Louvre, the Jeu de Paume gallery in Paris; 1946: assigned to the National Museum of Modern Art by the National Museums; 1980: assigned to the Louvre; 1986, assigned to the Musee d'Orsay, Paris; 1991, tabled in the National Museum of Franco-American Cooperation, Blerancourt (order of...
La Carmencita

by John Singer Sargent

1890
Oil on Canvas
228.6 x 134.22 cm (90 x 54 1/4 in.)

Musee d'Orsay

Paris, France

Sargent, John Singernotes
Carmencita was apparently an very interesting and colorful character, a highly spirited Spanish Gypsy Dancer who performed all over Europe and on the east coast of the United States. Sargent had first met her in 1889 in Paris. When he sees her again, this time in New York, he talks her into letting him paint her. She turned out to be a very...
La solitude

by T. Alexander Harrison

1893
oil on canvas
H. 1.05 ; L. 1.712

Musee d'Orsay

Paris, France

Harrison, T. Alexandernotes
History: 1893: acquired from the artist by the State; 1894-1922: Musee du Luxembourg; 1922-1946: Musee du Louvre, Jeu de Paume Museum then Foreign Schools; 1946-1980: National Museum of Modern Art; 1980: assigned to the Louvre by the National Museums; 1980: assigned to the Orsay Museum Louvre Museum
Le bosquet

by Gari Melchers

1908
oil on canvas
H. 1.67m ; L. 1.11m

Musee d'Orsay

Paris, France

Melchers, Gari 
Louis de Fourcaud (1851-1914)

by John Singer Sargent

1884
Oil on canvas
60 x 49.7 cm

Musee d'Orsay

Paris, France

Sargent, John Singernotes
Fourcaud, Louis Boussess of (Beaumarchez, 1851 ~ 1914) Art critic, writer, poet, and finally professor of arts. By 1884, when Sargent paints him, he was writing for the Clairon (a daily newspaper) and other publications and was considered  one of the prominent art critics in Paris -- he was 33 years old. Born of a noble family. At twelve he...
Maternite

by Gari Melchers

oil on canvas
H. 0.69m ; L. 0.465m

Musee d'Orsay

Paris, France

Melchers, Garinotes
History: until 1895, in the collection Gari Melchers, Julius; 1895, acquired from the artist by the state for the Musee du Luxembourg; from 1895 to 1922, the Musee du Luxembourg; assigned to the Louvre; from 1922 to 1946, the Louvre Museum Jeu de Paume (museum then Foreign Schools); from 1946 to 1977, the National Museum of Modern Art; assigned to...
Mrs. Katharine Moore

by John Singer Sargent

1884
Oil on canvas
71.5 x 50.5 cm

Musee d'Orsay

Paris, France

Sargent, John Singernotes
Mrs. Kate Moore Notes:    Bibliography  Léonce Bénédite , Le Musée du Luxembourg, peinture école étrangères. Musée annexe du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1924, n°65; Charles Merril Mount, John Singer Sargent, New York, Norton 1955, p. 82; Charles Merril Mount, John Singer Sargent, Londres, 1957, n°843; Cat. exp. J. S....
Sita and Sarita (Jeune Fille au Chat)

by Cecilia Beaux

1893–1894
Oil on canvas

Musee d'Orsay

Paris, France

Beaux, Cecilianotes
Sita and Sarita, a portrait of her cousin Charles W. Leavitt's wife Sarah (Allibone) Leavitt in white, with a small black cat perched on her shoulder, both gazing out mysteriously. The mesmerizing effect prompted one critic to point out "the witch-like weirdness of the black kitten" and for many years, the painting solicited questions by the press....
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