Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di un uomo barbuto (Portrait of a Bearded Man) c.1540 Oil on canvas, 97.79 x 85.09 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans The tight space between the blue curtain, cast shadow of the green wall and…
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo en la cruz con un paisaje de Toledo (Christ on the Cross with a View of Toledo) c.1610–1614 Oil on canvas, 104.1 x 61.9 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati See also: • Catedral Primada Santa María de…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Théodore Duret 1912 Oil on cardboard on wood, 95.2 x 74.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto a balding, bearded man with pale, peachy skin and wearing a three-piece suit, seated in a…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Vuillard au col blanc (Self-portrait with White Collar) 1888 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 31 cm Private collection This beautiful 1888 self-portrait of Edouard Vuillard is a prescient expression of the Nabi painter’s intimist talent that would…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) La mort de Sénèque (The Death of Seneca) 1773 Oil on canvas, 123 x 160 cm Petit Palais, Paris The Roman philosopher Seneca was accused of taking part in a conspiracy against Nero, and was ordered to commit suicide.…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Vieil homme au bâton (Old Man with a Stick) 1888 Oil on canvas, 70 x 45 cm Petit Palais, Paris This portrait of an old man sitting down was painted during Gauguin’s short stay in Arles. From 23 October…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Portrait of Theodore Duret (Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black) 1883 Oil on canvas, 193.4 x 90.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Theodore Duret (1838–1927), heir to a firm of Cognac dealers, was a…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Théodore Duret (Portrait of Théodore Duret) 1868 Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 35.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris After the tumultuous exhibition of the Olympia (Paris, Musée d’Orsay) that scandalised the Salon in 1865, Manet left for Spain…