Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Trois femmes tahitiennes (Three Tahitian Women) 1896 Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 43.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This panel once carried a note by the artist: “To the unknown collector of my works, Greetings—…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (St. John the Baptist in the Desert) 1586 Oil on copper, 34.50 x 26 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Venere e Cupido (Venus and Cupid) c.1575–1580 Oil on wood, 143 x 226.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier The Mannerist painter Allori designed a complex representation of Venus which owes much to the powerful figures of Michelangelo. The…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Madonna e Bambino con santi (The Madonna and Child with Saints) c.1540 Oil on wood, 101.6 x 81.3 cm National Gallery, London Elderly Saint Elizabeth looks down over the Virgin Mary’s shoulder at her son Saint John the…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Allegoria del trionfo di Venere (An Allegory with Venus and Cupid) c.1545 Oil on wood, 146.1 x 116.2 cm National Gallery, London This is one of Bronzino’s most complex and enigmatic paintings. It contains a tangle of moral…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) & Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere dormiente (Sleeping Venus) c.1508–1510 Oil on canvas, 108.5 x 175 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden The painting is one of the most famous works of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden. It was probably commissioned by…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Les Amants (The Lovers) 1928 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this unsettling image—the first in a series of four variations of Les Amants that Magritte painted in 1928—the…
Courtois, Gustave (1853-1923) Madame Gautreau 1891 Oil on canvas, 106 x 58.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Avegno Gautreau, Virginie Amélie (1859–1915)
La Gandara, Antonio de (1861-1917) Madame Pierre Gautreau 1897 Oil on canvas, 213.36 x 91.44 cm Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston On loan from Blair Darnell, L2006.01 See also: • Avegno Gautreau, Virginie Amélie (1859-1915)
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 32 x 41 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Madame Pierre Gautreau, born Virginie Avegno (1859–1915), was Madame X, the statuesque sitter in Sargent’s most notorious portrait…