Rembrandt and Workshop? (1606-1669) The Apostle Paul c.1657 Oil on canvas, 131.5 x 104.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Young Woman with Earrings 1657 Oil on panel, 39.5 x 32.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Woman 1654 Oil on canvas, 109 x 84 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Man in Red c.1652–1654 Oil on canvas, 108 x 86 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In the 1650s Rembrandt turned increasingly to the depiction of aged men and women, seeking to bring out in these…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Judith at the banquet of Holofernes 1634 Oil on canvas, 143 x 154.7 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In the past various authors have expressed their scepticism about the attribution of the painting to Rembrandt. However, the Rembrandt Research…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Le chevalier X, l’homme au journal (Portrait of a Man with a Newspaper) 1911–1914 Oil on canvas, 162.5 x 97.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Chevalier X was the name that the poet Guillaume Apollinaire invented for Derain’s…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Portrait d’une jeune fille en noir (Portrait of a Girl in Black) 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.3 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Under the influence of Cézanne, but also due to his friendship with Picasso and…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Scène de plage (Beach Scene) c.1865–1867 Oil on panel, 34.7 x 57.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland On a beach where a strong breeze moves off the water from left to right, figures of French women,…
Aalto, Alvar (1898-1976) Armchair from Woodberry Poetry Room 1948 Wood, upholstered, 86.4 x 67 x 74.5 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Le thé (The Tea) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 64.7 x 92.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston