El Greco (1541-1614) La Anunciación (The Annunciation) c.1576 Oil on canvas, 117 x 98 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid In the course of his life, EI Greco painted numerous versions of the Annunciation, thus allowing his stylistic development to be traced through…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) The Nymph at the Fountain c.1530–1534 Oil on panel, 75 x 120 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach was among the most important 16th-century German painters. His oeuvre includes religious compositions as…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Nu (Nude) 1913 Gouache on paper, 34 x 24 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Marc Chagall first lived in Paris from 1911 to 1914 and it was there that he painted the present Nude in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. The…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Le Bain de Diane, La Fontaine (Diana Bathing, The Fountain) 1869–1870 Oil on canvas, 72.1 x 41 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection According to Alfred Robaut, Corot painted this work between 1869 and 1870 in the…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Bergère nue couchée (Reclining Nude Shepherdess) 1891 Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 86.4 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen In the spring and summer of 1890 -and again in 1891– Berthe Morisot, with her husband Eugène Manet…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Le Miroir Psyché (The Psyche mirror) 1876 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Berthe Morisot was closely associated with French Impressionism and actively participated in all the group’s exhibitions. She maintained close and creative…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Nu couché sur canapé rose (Reclining nude on a pink couch) 1919 Oil on canvas, 33.3 × 41.2 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme assise, décolletée (Young woman seated, with neck and shoulders uncovered) 1891 Oil on canvas, 33.2 × 20.9 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Baigneurs sur la Seine (Bathers in the Seine) 1874–1876 Oil on canvas, 134 x 100 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo The alternative title “Study from the Nude,” as Camesasca notes (1987, p. 67), is an indication of…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Jésus insulté par les soldats (Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers) 1865 Oil on canvas, 190.8 × 148.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago For this monumental painting, Édouard Manet depicted Jesus Christ at the end of his life,…