Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di un giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1510 Mixed technique on poplar, 20 x 17 x 0.4 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt This early work by Titian presents such a radically close-up view of the sitter that he has…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille lisant (Reading Girl) 1880 Oil on canvas, 57 x 47.5 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt Renoir, like all Impressionists, was interested in motifs from everyday life. This way he could show his models in private moments: by concentrating…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Dans la vanillère, homme et cheval (In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse) 1891 Oil on jute canvas, 73 x 92 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Prior to his first voyage to Tahiti in 1891, Paul Gauguin claimed—from a…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Julie Manet au chat, d’après Auguste Renoir (Julie Manet with a cat, after Auguste Renoir) c.1889 Drypoint on paper, 14.8 x 12 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The painting by Renoir is in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Portrait de Berthe Morisot (Portrait of Berthe Morisot) c.1876 Drypoint, 26.2 x 17.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam See also: • Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895)
Guercino (1591-1666) Papa Gregorio XV (Pope Gregory XV) c.1622–1623 Oil on canvas, 133.7 × 98.4 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino or simply Guercino, meaning “The Squinter”, a nickname referring to a congenital eye condition from which…
Diélette in Art: Hoschedé Monet, Blanche (1865-1947) Bateaux au Port de Diélette, Normandie 1938 Private collection See also: • Cities | France | Normandie
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Cosimo I de’ Medici come Orfeo (Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici as Orpheus) c.1537–1539 Oil on panel, 93.7 × 76.4 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici is shown as the mythological musician…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Studio per la ‘Madonna del Pesce’ (Study for the ‘Madonna del Pesce’) c.1512–1514 Brush and brown wash heightened with white over black chalk on paper, 25.80 x 21.30 cm Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh This drawing shows a very…
