Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pommes et raisins (Apples and Grapes) c.1879–1880 Oil on canvas, 67.6 x 89.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of three tabletop still lifes depicting a basket of apples and grapes that Monet…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte aux pommes et aux amandes (Still Life with Apples and Almonds) s.d. Oil on canvas Musée Renoir, Cagnes-sur-Mer
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Nature morte à la commode (Still Life with Commode) c.1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 63.8 x 79.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Many artists of the twentieth century credited Cézanne with revolutionizing painting through his unique style and…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nature morte avec pommes, une poire et une cruche en forme de tête (Still Life with Apples, a Pear, and a Ceramic Portrait Jug) 1889 Oil on cradled panel, 28.6 x 36.2 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Autoportrait au nimbe (Self-Portrait with Halo) 1889 Oil on wood, 79.2 x 51.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A dark-haired, disembodied head of a haloed man with pale, peach skin floats against a red and yellow…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Frère et soeur bretons (Breton Brother and Sister) 1871 Oil on canvas, 129.2 x 89.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Based on sketches Bouguereau made while summering in Brittany in the late 1860s, this picture was…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Nature morte aux fleurs et fruit (Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) 1866 Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of four still lifes commissioned from the artist…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adamo ed Eva (Adam and Eve) c.1550 Oil on canvas, 240 x 186 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The painting is a faithful visualisation of Genesis 30, 9-19 in which Eve is blamed for accepting the forbidden fruit (although…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Paride (Paris) 1816 Marble, 203.7 x 103.7 x 55 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich Paris, the son of the Trojan king Priam, had been abandoned as a child and found and raised by shepherds. The apple in his right hand…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Paolina Borghese Bonaparte come Venere Vincitrice (Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix) 1804–1808 Carrara marble, 160 x 92 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma Portrayed by Antonio Canova in the guise Venus victorious in the Judgement of Paris, Pauline Borghese…