Month: September 2020

Cupid as Link Boy (1774)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…

Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (1875-1876)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (Towpath at Argenteuil, Winter) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100.01 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1871, following the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the newly wed Claude Monet moved from…

L’angelo della fama (c.1750)

Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) L’angelo della fama (The Angel of Fame) c.1750 Fresco, mounted on canvas, 198.1 x 330.8 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

A Caricature Group (c.1751)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) A Caricature Group (Sir Charles Turner, Mr. Cook, Mr. John Woodyeare, and Rev. Dr. William Drake) c.1751 Oil on canvas, 62.9 x 48.3 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Scène de rue (1900s)

Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Scène de rue (Street Scene) 1900s Oil on panel, 49.9 x 72.7 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Autoportrait (c.1888)

Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) c.1888 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 46.7 x 38.1 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Teste da un cammeo (1700s)

Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Teste da un cammeo (Heads from a Cameo) 1700s Oil on canvas, 23.5 x 18.3 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence