Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sacra Famiglia con san Giovannino (The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist) early 1600s Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 95.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is the only private devotional painting of the Madonna…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Mother’s Kiss 1890–1891 Drypoint and aquatint on paper, 34.92 x 22.86 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington A prolific and innovative printmaker, Mary Cassatt created Mother’s Kiss as one of a series of 10 color prints…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Bath 1891 Soft-ground etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 31.43 x 24.44 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington In 1890, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris held a large-scale exhibition of Japanese prints that…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Maternal Caress 1890–1891 Drypoint, aquatint and softground etching on paper, 36.83 x 26.82 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Famille d’Arlequin (Harlequin Family) 1905 Gouache and ink on card laid down on cradled panel, 29.5 x 21.5 cm Private collection Famille d’arlequin is an exquisite example of Picasso’s celebrated Rose period, which was dominated by images of…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) A Goodnight Hug (Mère et Enfant) 1880 Pastel on brown paper laid down on board, 42 x 62.8 cm Private collection Executed in 1880, A Goodnight Hug was one of Cassatt’s eleven entries, four oils and seven pastels,…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Place de la Trinité (Trinity Square) c.1878 Oil on canvas, 51 x 62.7 cm Private collection Painted circa 1878, Place de la Trinité represents the height of Renoir’s engagement with Impressionism and emphasizes the importance of his unique…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child, Wittgenstein Madonna) 1480–1485 Oil on wood, 109 x 85 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi Probably dating from the early 1480s, this work is very representative of the early Venetian Renaissance and the art of…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Melancholy 1532 Oil on panel, 61 x 97 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The sixteenth-century artist Lucas Cranach has become very popular in recent years, prompting a steady succession of exhibitions featuring his mysterious images. SMK…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de Coco (Portrait of Coco, Claude Renoir) 1903–1904 Oil on canvas, 28.5 x 24 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Portrait of Renoir’s third son Claude, nicknamed “Coco,” born in 1901, which points to a dating of the…