Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Agnus Dei (The Lamb of God) 1635–1640 Oil on canvas, 37.3 x 62 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A dark background and a gray table are the setting for this painting’s only motive: a merino lamb between…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Bodegón con cacharros (Still-Life with Pottery Jars) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 46 x 84 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Various vessels of different materials, shapes and uses rest on a wooden surface that could be a table…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Cristo crucificado, con un pintor (The Crucified Christ with a Painter) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 105 x 84 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A painter devoutly contemplates the almost-sculptural figure of Christ on the Cross, which stands…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Femme en costume de ville (Woman in Street Clothes, Portrait of Ellen Andrée) c.1879 Pastel on green-grey paper, 48.5 × 42 cm Private collection See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Émile Zola 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Emile Zola, Cézanne‘s boyhood friend, showed an early interest in painting. He was particularly interested in the artists rejected by the official critics. In 1866,…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Parisienne (A Parisian Lady) 1883 Oil on canvas, 192 x 125 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm This painting shows the actress Ellen André as a Parisienne, who lived and moved in the modern commercial city. Socially, she was often a…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Au café (At the café) 1878 Pastel on canvas, 77 x 83 cm Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur This is the left side of a larger painting. The right half, titled Coin d’un café-concert, is in the National Gallery, London. Right…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Louis Gauthier-Lathuille 1879 Pastel on canvas, 54 x 45.7 cm Private collection See also: • Gauthier-Lathuille, Louis
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Chez le Père Lathuille (At Père Lathuille’s) 1879 Oil on canvas, 92 x 112 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai, Tournai “The modern life I spoke of, here it is” (Joris-Karl Huysmans) With Édouard Manet, painting enters modernity.…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La fin du déjeuner (After the Luncheon) 1879 Oil on canvas, 101 x 81 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt In the arbour of a Parisian restaurant, an abundant meal is drawing to a close. The actress Ellen Andrée has taken…