Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Léopold Zborowski 1916–1919 Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Before moving to Paris in 1906, Modigliani studied in the academies of Florence and Venice, in Italy. In the French capital, he…
Blake, William (1757-1827) God Judging Adam c.1795 Relief etching, printed in color and finished with pen and ink and watercolor, 42.5 x 52.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A nude and aged Adam, newly aware of his own nakedness and…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La présentation de Jésus au Temple (The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1886–1894 Watercolor on paper, 22.2 x 15.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Forty days after the birth of Jesus, the Holy Family travels to Jerusalem…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 64.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In this enigmatic painting, an unidentified man in modern bourgeois attire sits in a chair among cuts of meat. A…
El Greco (1541-1614) San Francisco recibiendo los estigmas (Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata) 1585–1590 Oil on canvas, 102.24 × 96.84 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Wagon de première classe (The First Class Carriage) 1864 Watercolor on paper, 20.5 x 30 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Guercino (1591-1666) Studio per Il Martirio di San Bartolomeo (Study for “The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew”) c.1635–1636 Red chalk on cream laid paper, 37.6 x 28.5 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Au Théâtre, la loge (At the Theater, the box) 1894 Oil on canvas, 46 x 55.8 cm Private collection
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Joseph Roulin assis (Joseph Roulin seated) 1888 Oil on canvas, 81.3 cm × 65.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Van Gogh left Paris for Arles, a small town in southern France, in February 1888, where he…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) c.1857–1858 Oil on paper, mounted on canvas, 26 x 19.1 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown