Tag: AIC

Bordighera (1884)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Bordighera 1884 Oil on canvas, 65 × 80.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Early in 1884 Claude Monet traveled to Bordighera, a town on the Italian Riviera near the border between Italy and France, for a working visit…

Portrait de Jeanne Wenz (1886)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Portrait de Jeanne Wenz (Portrait of Jeanne Wenz) 1886 Oil on canvas, 80.7 × 59.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this portrait when he was only 22 years old and still an art…

Sita (c.1893)

Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Sita c.1893 Pastel, crayon and charcoal on paper, 53.6 × 37.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

The Shadow of Death (1873-1874)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Shadow of Death 1873–1874 Oil on panel, 104.5 x 82 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This minutely detailed painting depicts the young Jesus stretching after his day’s labor in his father’s carpentry shop. His mother,…

Perseus and Andromeda (1875)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Perseus and Andromeda (study for The Doom Fulfilled) 1875 Gouache with gold paint on board, 33 x 30.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Compare: Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Doom Fulfilled 1888 Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart    

Cupid’s Hunting Fields (1885)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Cupid’s Hunting Fields 1885 Gouache, with watercolor and gold and silver paints on ivory wove paper, laid down on linen canvas, 99.5 x 76.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

The Dinner Horn (1870)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn 1870 Wood engraving on paper, 34.6 × 22.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Published June 11, 1870 by Harper’s Weekly (American, 1857-1916). Compare: Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 National Gallery of Art, Washington…

Croquet Scene (1866)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Croquet Scene 1866 Oil on canvas, 40.3 × 66.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago One of America’s foremost painters, Winslow Homer began his career as an illustrator during the Civil War. In the late 1860s, he turned…

Femme dans un intérieur (1932)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Femme dans un intérieur (Woman in Interior) 1932 Gouache with pastel, watercolor, and charcoal on tan wove paper, laid down on canvas, 72.7 × 91.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Studio di panneggio (c.1470)

Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) Studio di panneggio (Drapery Study of a Standing Figure Facing Right, in Profile) late 1460s-early 1470s Brush and opaque watercolor, on linen, mounted to paper, 28.3 × 18.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago