Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Femme nue couchée (Reclining Female Nude) 1844–1845 Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Femme nue couchée (1844-1845)
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Ninfa e pastore (c.1570-1575)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ninfa e pastore (Nymph and shepherd) c.1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 149.6 × 187 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Venus at the Mirror (1613-1614)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus at the Mirror 1613–1614 Oil on panel, 124 x 98 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Manaò tupapaú (1892)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) 1892 Oil on jute mounted on canvas, 73.02 x 92.39 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1891, after many years without commercial success in France, Paul Gauguin traveled to the…
La mort de Sardanapale (1844)
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) 1844 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La Mort de Sardanapale, esquisse 1826–1827 Musée du Louvre, Paris Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Mort de…
La Baigneuse de Valpinçon (1808)
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La baigneuse, dite Baigneuse de Valpinçon (The Bather, known as The Valpinçon Bather) 1808 Oil on canvas, 146 x 97.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Body of a woman naked from behind seated on the edge of…
La boîte de Pandore (1951)
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La boîte de Pandore (Pandora’s box) 1951 Oil on canvas, 45.4 × 54.9 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Deux femmes (c.1908)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Deux femmes (Two Women) c.1908 Bronze, 45.7 x 25.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Matisse based this sculpture on a photograph of two women embracing, but translated it into a more compact, three-dimensional composition by fusing their…
L’Appel (1902)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Appel (The Call) 1902 Oil on fabric, 131.3 x 89.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Although known as one of the founders of modern art, Gauguin found inspiration in ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art. The woman…
Dans les Vagues (1889)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Dans les Vagues (In the Waves) 1889 Oil on fabric, 92.5 x 72.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gauguin likely painted this work of art during his time in a small coastal village called Pont-Aven where he…