In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
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Matisse often used members of his family as models for his paintings. Here he depicts his daughter, Marguerite, resting on a haystack; she is recognizable by the black ribbon around her neck, which she wore to hide scars from a surgery. Matisse painted this while he was living in Nice in the South of France. As in many of his canvases from the Nice period, this one seems to straddle the portrait and landscape genres.
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Jules Pascin — Reclining Nude
William Glackens — Girl Asleep
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — Femme nue couché
Edgar Degas — Woman Drying Her Arm
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) — Weary
Alexej von Jawlensky — Sitzende Frau
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — Reclining Woman in a White Chemise
Paul Cézanne — Young Italian Woman at a Table
Pablo Picasso — Woman Seated on Striped Floor
Edvard Munch — Seated Nude
Jules Pascin — Nude and Books (Nu et livres)
Umberto Boccioni — Woman Leaning on a Chair (The Artist's Si
