Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) 1550–1555 Oil on wood, 75 x 57.5 cm National Gallery, London It has previously been thought that this portrait may represent one of the elder sons of Duke Cosimo…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ritratto di giovane, Antonio Broccardo? (Portrait of a Young Man, The Broccardo Portrait) c.1508–1510 Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 54 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Even today it is difficult to define what the advent of Giorgione…
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.…