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…
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…
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…
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…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Julie Manet et sa levrette Laërte (Julie Manet and Her Greyhound Laertes) 1893 Oil on canvas, 73 x 80 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris After the death of Eugène Manet in 1892, Berthe Morisot left the rue…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Berthe Morisot et sa fille, Julie Manet (Berthe Morisot and her daughter Julie Manet) 1894 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.5 cm Private collection Berthe Morisot et sa fille, Julie Manet is a rare and intimate depiction…
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.…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Self-Portrait 1906 Oil on canvas, 69.8 × 53 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The famous collection of artists’ self-portraits housed in the Vasari Corridor in Florence, which links the Uffizi Gallery with the Palazzo Pitti, goes…
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Il gatto nero (The Black Cat) 1910–1911 Oil on canvas, 54.4 x 73 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Gino Severini was affiliated with the Italian Futurists, an avant-garde movement inspired by transformations in the urban landscape.…