(1808–1887) Born December 26 1808 Paris (France) Died May 11 1887 Paris (France) Buried Cimetière du Père Lachaise (Paris) Husband (m.1852) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Delphine Ramel, Madame Ingres
Autoportrait (c.1858)
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) c.1858 Oil on canvas, 26.4 x 21.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the beginning of his career, between 1854 and 1861, Fantin-Latour executed a large number of self-portraits in chalk, charcoal, and oil.…
Bella au col blanc (1917)
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Bella au col blanc (Bella with White Collar) 1917 Oil on linen, 149 x 72 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris The writer Bella Rosenfeld, represented here as a giantess, would be Chagall‘s muse throughout her life. Taking up…
Bella Rosenfeld
(1889–1944) Bella Rosenfeld Chagall Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал Marc, Bella and their daughter Ida, Paris 1924. Bella in Art: Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Bella au col blanc 1917 Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris Born December 14 1889 Vitebsk (Belarus) Died September 2 1944 Tupper Lake,…
Lydia Cassatt
(1837–1882) Lydia Simpson Cassatt Lydia in Art: Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge 1879 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Le thé c.1880 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926)…
Grand Nu (1907-1908)
Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Grand Nu (Large Nude) 1907–1908 Oil on canvas, 140 × 100 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris [Winter 1907 – June 1908] By virtue of its subject, its dimensions and its audacity, this work constitutes an essential milestone in…
Cecilia Forlani Boccioni
(?) Cecilia Forlani Boccioni in Art: Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Mia madre che lavora 1907 National Gallery of Art, Washington Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Tre donne 1909–1910 Banca Commerciale Italiana, Milano Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Antigrazioso 1913, cast 1950 Metropolitan Museum of…
God Judging Adam (1795)
Blake, William (1757-1827) God Judging Adam 1795 Relief etching, ink and watercolour on paper, 43.2 x 53.5 cm Tate Britain, London This is a hand-finished relief etching, printed on paper from a copper plate. The broken texture visible along the light grey…
Le citron (c.1935)
Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le citron (The Lemon) c.1935 Oil on canvas, 27.2 x 41.2 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Le Viaduc de l’Estaque (1907)
Braque, Georges (1882-1963) Le Viaduc de l’Estaque (The Viaduct at L’Estaque) 1907 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 80.6 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Between 1906 and 1910, Georges Braque made several trips to the south of France and the port at…