Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Self-Portrait 1542–1543 Coloured chalk, pen and gold on paper, 32 x 26 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Self-Portrait (1542-1543)
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Portrait of Henry VIII of England (c.1537)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of Henry VIII of England c.1537 Oil on panel, 28 x 20 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Portraiture was the most popular genre in sixteenth-century England, and indeed one of the few available to artists following the…
Portrait de l’artiste au fond rose (c. 1875)
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait de l’artiste au fond rose (Self-Portrait with Pink Background) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 66 x 55.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Ecce Homo (1547)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ecce Homo 1547 Oil on slate, 69 x 56 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Although we do not know when Titian first treated this subject, it was probably in 1535, when he painted a Christ for Federico Gonzaga following a…
Cristo crucificado, con un pintor (c.1650)
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Cristo crucificado, con un pintor (The Crucified Christ with a Painter) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 105 x 84 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A painter devoutly contemplates the almost-sculptural figure of Christ on the Cross, which stands…
Portrait d’Émile Zola (1868)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’Émile Zola (Portrait of Émile Zola) 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Olympia 1863 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco 1628–1629 Museo…
La fin du déjeuner (1879)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La fin du déjeuner (After the Luncheon) 1879 Oil on canvas, 101 x 81 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925)
Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe (1875-1876)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe (In a Cafe or Absinthe) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 92 x 68.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925) | Café de la Nouvelle Athènes (Paris) | Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902)
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1867-1868)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot 1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 151.4 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable painter James Tissot was Degas’s friend and mentor in the 1860s and early 1870s. Posed in a studio, top hat…
Le Bureau de coton à La Nouvelle-Orléans (1873)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Le Bureau de coton à La Nouvelle-Orléans (The Cotton Office in New Orleans) 1873 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau