Tag: Art

Portrait of Margaret van Eyck (1439)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Portrait of Margaret van Eyck (Portret van Margareta van Eyck) 1439 Oil on panel, 32.6 x 25.8 cm Groeningemuseum, Bruges inscription and dating (top): .CO[N]IV[N]X M[EV]S IOH[ANN]ES ME C[OM]PLEVIT AN[N]O . 1439°.17°IVNIJ age ported (bottom): ETAS MEA…

Groeningemuseum (Bruges)

Opened: 1930 Address: Dijver 12, 8000 Brugge, Belgium Website: https://www.museabrugge.be/en/visit-our-museums/our-museums-and-monuments/groeningemuseum Collection: • Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516): The Last Judgment (1500-05) • Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441): Portrait of Margaret van Eyck (1439) • Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441): The Madonna with Canon van der Paele (1436) See also: • Bruges (Belgium) | Museums

Romaine Lacaux

Romaine Lacaux in Art: Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Romaine Lacaux 1864 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland    

Portrait of a Man, Léal Souvenir (1432)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Portrait of a Man (Léal Souvenir) 1432 Oil on oak, 33.3 x 18.9 cm National Gallery, London This small portrait is puzzling in many ways. We don‘t know who this man was or why he is holding…

Portrait of a Man (1433)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) 1433 Oil on oak, 26 x 19 cm National Gallery, London This man, his face impassive and his gaze intense, is almost certainly Jan van Eyck himself. No other portraits of…

La fille du guerrier (c.1878)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) La fille du guerrier (The Warrior’s Daughter) c.1878 Oil on panel, 21.8 x 36.2 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Modern life was the central theme of Tissot‘s art, with a focus on bourgeois social behaviour. His genre pieces…

Hush! (1875)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) Hush! 1875 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 112.2 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Modern life was the central theme of Tissot‘s art, with a focus on bourgeois social behaviour. His genre pieces typically dwelt on social nicety, flattering…

Manchester Art Gallery

Opened: 1824 Location: Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3JL Website: https://manchesterartgallery.org/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also: •…

Berthe (c.1883)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) Portrait de jeune femme / Berthe (Portrait of a young woman / Berthe) c.1883 Graphite pencil, pastel and paper on canvas, 73 x 59 cm Petit Palais, Paris