#oil-sketch
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Jeanne Samary by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1878
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
They say this started as a quick study of a French stage actress, a favourite subject who sat for several portraits like this one.
Erisava: Does this really look finished to you?
Hay Wagon by Willem de Zwart, 1908
Rijksmuseum · wikidata.org
Public domain
Small oil studies like this were the everyday output for painters of his school — knocked out fast on a board, often outdoors, and plenty of them were never meant to be finished pictures at all. A good number got sold anyway, and a good number ended up in collections.
Erisava: Looks like it took him twenty minutes. I can't decide if that's impressive or cheap.
The Happy Mother by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1760
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
Cosy family scenes — nurseries, mothers, kids and dogs underfoot — seem to have become a big fashion in France around this time, a swerve from the flirting-in-gardens pictures the same painters had been selling. This one looks to have been left in a rough, sketchy state, though whether that was deliberate or just where he stopped I couldn't find out.
Erisava: Not sure which one is the mother and why she's happy.