Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) & Workshop San Jerónimo con Santa Paula y San Eustoquio (Saint Jerome with Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium) c.1640–1650 Oil on fabric, 245.7 x 173.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Santa Lucía (Saint Lucy) c.1625–1630 Oil on canvas, 104.14 × 77 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Few images of saints show women as gorgeously attired as Francisco de Zurbarán‘s. His Saint Lucy portrays the young…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Bateaux de pêche (The Fishing Boat) 1865 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet painted this work during an intensely productive visit to Trouville with James McNeill Whistler from…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Femme à la vague (The Woman in the Waves) 1868 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 54 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1864 and 1868 Courbet undertook a series of paintings of the female nude.…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Chiens de chasse et lièvre mort (Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare) 1857 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 148.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Set in a forest, two hunting dogs face off as they await…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Après la chasse (After the Hunt) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 236.2 x 186.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In style, scale, and composition, this work strongly resembles Courbet’s first hunting scene, The Quarry, a great…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot) 1866 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 195.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When this painting was shown in the Salon of 1866, some critics censured Courbet‘s “lack of…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Trombe (Marine: The Waterspout) 1870 Oil on canvas, 68.9 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet first witnessed a waterspout at Trouville, a village on the Channel Coast, in 1865 or 1866. This…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Jeunes femmes du village (Young Ladies of the Village) 1851–1852 Oil on canvas, 194.9 x 261 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting, which initiated a series of pictures devoted to the lives of women,…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La mer calme (The Calm Sea) 1869 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet painted this view looking out over the English Channel during a visit to Étretat along the…