Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Georges Charpentier 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Charpentier, Marguerite-Louise (1848-1904)
Madame Georges Charpentier (1876-1877)
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A Souvenir of Velazquez (1868)
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) A Souvenir of Velazquez 1868 Oil on canvas, 102.7 x 82.4 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London The expressionistic brushwork and broad colouring of Millais‘s diploma work contrasts with the restrained naturalism of his earlier Pre-Raphaelite paintings. This…
Giovanni Bellini (1511-1512)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto del pittore veneziano Giovanni Bellini (Portrait of the Venetian Painter Giovanni Bellini) 1511–1512 Oil on canvas, 80 x 66 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen According to the Italian artist and historiographer Giorgio Vasari’s (1511-1574) biography from 1568, Titian…
Retrato de un hombre (1570-1575)
El Greco (1541-1614) Retrato de un hombre (Portrait of a Man) 1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 116 x 98 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The chalk holder on the armrest, accompanied by a book with white and red bookmarks, suggests that the…
L’artiste, Portrait de Marcellin Desboutin (1875)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’artiste, Portrait de Marcellin Desboutin (The Artist, Portrait of Marcellin Desboutin) 1875 Oil on canvas, 195.5 x 131.5 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo See also: • Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902)
Portrait of Martin Luther (1532)
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Martin Luther 1532 Oil on wood, 37 x 23.5 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Compare: Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Martin Luther 1525 Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait…
Portrait de Zélie (1853)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Portrait de Zélie (Portrait of Zelie) 1853 Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy See also: • Courbet, Zélie (1828-1875)
Autoritratto (c.1546-1548)
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) c.1546–1548 Oil on canvas, 45.1 × 38.1 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This dramatically intimate self-portrait announced the arrival of a new talent on the Venetian art scene; Tintoretto painted it when he was just beginning his…
René Descartes (1647-1648)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) René Descartes 1647–1648 Oil on oak wood, 19 x 14 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The small painting has been dealt a hard time. Someone has scratched zigzag lines with a pointed object all over the painting. But…
Portrait of a Couple (c.1622)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Couple (Probably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen) c.1622 Oil on canvas, 140 x 166.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam This happy, smiling pair sits comfortably close to each other. Posing a couple together in…