Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1881 Pastel on paper, 69.2 x 69.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1874 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work and its variant in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1873–1876 Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 75 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Degas regularly went to the Paris opera house, not only as a member of the audience, but as a visitor…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Autoportrait au col blanc (Self-Portrait with White Collar) c.1857 Oil on paper on canvas, 20.5 x 15 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto del Cardinale Bibbiena (Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena) c.1516 Oil on panel, 85 x 66.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Bernardo Dovizi (Bibbiena 1470– Rome 1520) was a scholar and a diplomat, as well as a friend and trusted private secretary…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Tommaso Inghirami detto “Fedra” (Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami called ‘Phaedra’) c.1510– 1511 Oil on panel, 89.5 x 62.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze The subject, dressed in a red with a white sash, and wearing a red cap, emerges…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Tommaso Inghirami c.1510 Oil on wood, 90 x 62.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Lost in thought, Inghirami gazes up and to the right. Raphael may have chosen this angle to diminish the impact of the sitter’s…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Sacra Famiglia sotto la quercia (Holy Family below the Oak) 1518–1520 Oil on panel, 144 x 110 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Leaning on a classical ruin, Saint Joseph looks at the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child in her…