Miss La La au Cirque Fernando (1879)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Miss La La au Cirque Fernando (Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Oil on canvas, 117.2 × 77.5 cm National Gallery, London The Cirque Fernando was built in 1875 near the Place Pigalle in Paris, close…

Miss Lala

(1858-?) Anna Olga Woodson, née Anna Olga Albertina Brown called Lala Kaira, Miss Lala, Miss La La or Mademoiselle La La Miss Lala in Art: Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Miss La La au Cirque Fernando 1879 National Gallery, London    …

La Famille du peintre (1926)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La Famille du peintre (The Painter’s Family) 1926 Oil on canvas, 146.4 × 114.9 cm Tate Britain, London In the mid-1920s de Chirico reworked many of the themes of his pre-war paintings in the light of his…

Le Roi d’Aragon (1973)

Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Le Roi d’Aragon (King of Aragon) 1973 Etching and mezzotint on paper, 48.3 × 35.6 cm Tate Britain, London Albert Field, The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dalí, New York 1996, p.80: “King of Aragon…

The Light of The World (1851-1856)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Light of The World 1851–1856 Oil on canvas, 49.8 x 26.1 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Painting in the shape of an arched doorway. Standing at a wooden doorway with rusted hinges and overgrown with ivy and…

The Shadow of Death (1870-1873)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Shadow of Death 1870–1873 Oil on canvas, 214.2 x 168.2 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester The picture shows a carpenter’s workshop. A youthful Christ, depicted as muscular and tanned, stands facing the front and stretching, with…

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1853)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1853 Pastel and pencil on paper, 28.6 x 25.9 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Compare: Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882–1883 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham     See also: • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1882-1883)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882–1883 Oil on panel, 30.2 x 22.9 cm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at 22 years of age. A young Rossetti in his mid-twenties looking directly at the…

The Scapegoat (1854-1855)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Scapegoat 1854–1855 oil on canvas, 33.7 x 45.9 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Vividly coloured depiction of a russet coloured goat on the brink of death. The goat stands in the centre foreground, head lowered, haunches caving…