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Felipe IV, orante (c.1655)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV, orante (Philip IV in prayer) c.1655 Oil on canvas, 209 x 147 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This pair of portraits (P001220 and P001222) combines several aspects of Spanish portraiture of the Baroque period. In…

Felipe IV (c.1653)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV (Philip IV) c.1653 Oil on canvas, 69.3 x 56.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This image can be identified as that of a king and as a portrait of Philip IV on the basis of…

Felipe IV (1623)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV (Philip IV) 1623 Oil on canvas, 198 x 101.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid We see King Philip IV of Spain (r. 1621-1665) when he was around twenty years old in an austere image filled…

Retrato de hombre (c.1623)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Retrato de hombre (Portrait of a Man) c.1623 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 38 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The pragmatic of January 1623 that dictated a new dress code and has since been used to date…

Madame X (1883-1884)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 208.6 x 109.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Madame Pierre Gautreau (the Louisiana-born Virginie Amélie Avegno; 1859–1915) was known in Paris for her artful appearance.…

La femme à la rose (1884)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) La femme à la rose (Woman with a Rose) 1884 Oil on canvas, 72.7 x 60.3 cm Private collection See also: • Hagen, Anne Marie (1858-?)

Jeune fille au chapeau (c.1891)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille au chapeau (Young Girl in a Pink-and-Black Hat) c.1891 Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 32.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of many paintings that Renoir made in the 1890s of…