Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Victorine Meurent c.1862 Oil on canvas, 42.9 x 43.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Victorine-Louise Meurent (1844-1927) was a professional artist’s model and painter in her own right, exhibiting work at the Paris Salon in 1876 and…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Mlle V. en costume d’espada (Mademoiselle V. in the Costume of an Espada) 1862 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 127.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet depicted model Victorine Meurent (1844–1927) in the guise of a…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Illustration to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (Open Here I Flung the Shutter) 1875 Lithograph on laid (Hollande) paper, 54.2 x 35 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Translator: Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898): Le Corbeau…
Built: end of the 18th century Location: 60240 Le Mesnil-Théribus, France The Château de Beaufresne was the home of American painter Mary Cassatt from 1887 to 1926. Deaths: • Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) See also: • Le Mesnil-Théribus (France) | Palaces
Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Sur la terrasse à Sèvres (On the Terrace at Sèvres) 1880 Oil on canvas, 88 x 115 cm Musée du Petit Palais, Genève Sur la terrasse de la villa Brancas avec Henri Fantin-Latour. See also: • Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae 1560–1565 Oil on canvas, 129.8 x 181.2 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The first Poesie presented to Prince Philip were Danaë (1553, The Wellington Collection) and Venus and Adonis (1554, Museo del Prado, P422), versions of other…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae c.1554 Oil on canvas, 120 x 187 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Danaë is one of five paintings that the master produced on the subject of the popular Greek myth. An oracle told King Acrisius that he…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae c.1545 Oil on canvas, 118.5 x 170 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae after 1554 Oil on canvas, 135 x 152 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Akrisios, king of Argos, had his daughter locked in a tower because an oracle had prophesied that a grandson would kill him. Nevertheless, Jupiter became…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Danae after 1554 Oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (on loan) Extended loan from the Barker Welfare Foundation, New York, New York.