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Maurice Denis, Baigneuses (Bathers) or Plage au petit temple (Petit Temple Beach), 1906

Maurice Denis

Baigneuses (Bathers) or Plage au petit temple (Petit Temple Beach), 1906

Displayed at the 1906 Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts and acquired in 1907 by Eugène Boch, the brother of the famous Belgian painter…

René Auberjonois , La route valaisanne (Road in the Valais), 1940 - 1941

René Auberjonois

La route valaisanne (Road in the Valais), 1940 - 1941

René Auberjonois first stayed in the Valais in 1902 and was stunned by the ‘great spectacle of the landscapes’. His life soon acquired a pendulum…

Félix Vallotton

Le grand nuage (The Great Cloud), 1900

Félix Vallotton and his wife Gabrielle spent the summer of 1900 in the chateau of La Naz in Romanel, overlooking Lausanne. The views over the…

Francesco da Rimini , Naissance de la Vierge (The Birth of the Virgin), c. 1320–30

Francesco da Rimini

Naissance de la Vierge (The Birth of the Virgin), c. 1320–30

This representation of the birth of the Virgin bathes in the universality of the divine presence manifested by the gold ground. At the centre, we…

Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (L'Aîné) , Étude pour le Retour des jeunes mariés (Study for the Homecoming), 1881

Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (L'Aîné)

Étude pour le Retour des jeunes mariés (Study for the Homecoming), 1881

In 1898, the Swiss-born artist Benjamin Vautier died in Düsseldorf, where he had spent most of his career. He was feted by the media as…

Léo-Paul Robert , Étude pour La Justice élève les nations (Study for Righteousness Exalteth a Nation), 1901

Léo-Paul Robert

Étude pour La Justice élève les nations (Study for Righteousness Exalteth a Nation), 1901

Léo-Paul Robert, a native of Neuchâtel, was born into a family of painters including his father Aurèle and his uncle Léopold. He studied in Munich…

Emile David, Polyphème (Polyphemus), between 1860 and 1870

Emile David

Polyphème (Polyphemus), between 1860 and 1870

Only in the early seventeenth century did landscape painting become a noted genre in its own right in Rome, when vedute, or topographical views, became…

Charles Gleyre, Les Romains passant sous le joug (Romans Passing under the Yoke) or La bataille du Léman (The Battle of Léman), 1858

Charles Gleyre

Les Romains passant sous le joug (Romans Passing under the Yoke) or La bataille du Léman (The Battle of Léman), 1858

Charles Gleyre’s republican convictions explain his enthusiastic acceptance of a commission from the radical new government in his native Canton of Vaud. He was asked…

Charles Gleyre

Femme turque (Dudo Narikos) [Turkish woman (Dudo Narikos)], 1840

On his return to Paris in 1838 after a lengthy journey in the Mediterranean in the pay of the American John Lowell Jr., Charles Gleyre…

Luca Giordano , Le jugement de Salomon (The Judgement of Solomon), c. 1670–85

Luca Giordano

Le jugement de Salomon (The Judgement of Solomon), c. 1670–85

This painting illustrates an episode in the Old Testament. Two prostitutes, who had given birth at the same moment, both claim to be the mother…

Charles Gleyre, Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), between 1830 and 1834

Charles Gleyre

Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), between 1830 and 1834

Charles Gleyre was a modest, reserved, shy man who rarely painted himself. He found his prominent nose and fleshy lips unattractive and only painted three…

Félix Vallotton, La paresse (Idleness), 1896

Félix Vallotton

La paresse (Idleness), 1896

By 1900, Vallotton was renowned in Paris as one of the major protagonists in the revival of printmaking. He had begun making drypoint works and…

Albert Welti, Portrait de famille (Family Portrait), 1904

Albert Welti

Portrait de famille (Family Portrait), 1904

A number of features in this family portrait reflect the influence of the Northern Old Masters, including the historiated frame carved by the artist himself,…

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein , Portrait de Nicolas Châtelain, c. 1800–10

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein

Portrait de Nicolas Châtelain, c. 1800–10

Nicolas Châtelain and Johann Friedrich August Tischbein – the model and his painter – both belonged to grand dynasties. Châtelain, the son of a pastor,…

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Le tremblement de terre (The Earthquake), 1806

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours

Le tremblement de terre (The Earthquake), 1806

Trained in Paris in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien, Saint-Ours set up in Rome in 1780. In 1792 he returned to Geneva to fight for…

François Diday , Le glacier du Rosenlaui (The Rosenlaui Glacier), 1841

François Diday

Le glacier du Rosenlaui (The Rosenlaui Glacier), 1841

François Diday studied fine art in Geneva and then in Antoine-Jean Gros’ studio in Paris. He showed his work regularly at the Paris Salon, where…

Auguste Baud-Bovy , Lioba! Berger de l’Oberland bernois rappelant son troupeau (Lioba! A Shepherd in the Bernese Oberland Calling back His Flock), 1886

Auguste Baud-Bovy

Lioba! Berger de l’Oberland bernois rappelant son troupeau (Lioba! A Shepherd in the Bernese Oberland Calling back His Flock), 1886

In 1882, Auguste Baud-Bovy left Geneva for Paris to be with his Communard friends and the artists of the French-Swiss colony. During his time there…

Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Balmer , Quatre frères (Four Brothers), 1903/4

Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Balmer

Quatre frères (Four Brothers), 1903/4

This long frieze juxtaposes head-and-shoulders portraits of the artist's family. To the left are his older sons Rico and Jean-Jacques in Russian costumes, then Luc,…

Edgar Degas, Femme s’essuyant la nuque (Woman Drying Her Neck), c. 1903

Edgar Degas

Femme s’essuyant la nuque (Woman Drying Her Neck), c. 1903

Degas produced some two hundred pastels on the theme of women washing, placing the emphasis on the action itself: the figure is presented in close…

Charles Gleyre, Etude d’un Nubien (Study of a Nubian), between 1835 and 1837

Charles Gleyre

Etude d’un Nubien (Study of a Nubian), between 1835 and 1837

Charles Gleyre had been in Rome for five years when, in spring 1834, he had the opportunity to live the dream that obsessed all Romantics:…

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Fortifs (Fortifications), 1886

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

Fortifs (Fortifications), 1886

When Paris was modernised during the Second Empire, the poorest sectors of the population were driven out of the city's historic centre. Like Vincent van…

Luigi Monteverde, Raisins (Grapes), 1889

Luigi Monteverde

Raisins (Grapes), 1889

Monteverde's childhood was divided between Lugano, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo, where his brother, a painter and decorator, taught him his trade. In 1870, Monteverde travelled…

Cuno Amiet, Portrait d'Anna Amiet (Portrait of Anna Amiet), 1923

Cuno Amiet

Portrait d'Anna Amiet (Portrait of Anna Amiet), 1923

Solothurn-born Cuno Amiet, a long-standing friend of Giovanni Giacometti since their days studying art in Munich and sharing lodgings and a studio in Paris in…

Jacques Sablet, Le peintre dans son atelier avec ses parents (The Painter in his Studio with his Parents), 1781

Jacques Sablet

Le peintre dans son atelier avec ses parents (The Painter in his Studio with his Parents), 1781

Jacques Sablet was thirty-two when he took the painful decision to move on from history painting, having moved to Rome in a failed attempt to…

Jacques Sablet, Portrait de famille avec la Basilique de Maxence (Family Portrait with the Basilica of Maxentius), 1791

Jacques Sablet

Portrait de famille avec la Basilique de Maxence (Family Portrait with the Basilica of Maxentius), 1791

This painting, the companion piece to the Museum's Portrait de famille avec le Colisée (Family Portrait with the Colosseum, 1791), similarly shows a group of…

Jacques Sablet, Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), circa 1778

Jacques Sablet

Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), circa 1778

The soft brushwork and warm brown tones in this self-portrait of Jacques Sablet in his travelling coat are typical of the artist's first period, influenced…

Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz, dite) , Materdolorosa, 1922

Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz, dite)

Materdolorosa, 1922

Lausanne-born Aloïse Corbaz was a governess who was employed at the court of Wilhelm II in Germany for a while. On her return to Switzerland…

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