Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Self-portrait c.1638 Oil on canvas, 110 × 85.5 × 2.4 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription: P.P. RUBINS (!) added later on the left of the column Despite his great successes, Rubens was always ambivalent about court life.…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer 1597 Oil on copper, 21.6 x 14.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This sensitive portrait on copper is one of Rubens’s earliest known works. The square…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) La Jeune bonne (The Servant Girl) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 60.96 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Between 1915 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani executed many portraits in a style characterized by sparse settings and figures rendered…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Black Spot No. 3 1919 Oil on canvas, 60.96 x 40.64 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In her earliest works, Georgia O’Keeffe sought to depict natural forces and forms. Whether abstract or more representational, her imagery remained…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Black Place II 1944 Oil on canvas, 60.6 × 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “The Black Place” was the name O’Keeffe gave to one of her favorite painting sites in New Mexico. It was a…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a man) c.1475 Oil on wood, 32.8 × 25.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
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
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of a Hanseatic Merchant 1538 Oil on panel, 49.6 × 39 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) c.1588 Oil on canvas, 63 x 52 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Tintoretto painted this self-portrait for the German goldsmith and art dealer Hans Jakob König who, based in Venice, was building a collection of artists’…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Copie de l’Autoportrait du Tintoret (Copy of Tintoretto’s Self-Portrait) 1854 Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon Compare: Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Autoritratto c.1588 Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594)