Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Woman Aged Sixty 1633 Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 86.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington The strength and vitality of the people who helped establish the new Dutch Republic are nowhere better captured than…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les Roches Noires à Trouville (The Black Rocks at Trouville) 1865–1866 Oil on canvas, 50 × 61 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We stand on a beach lined with black rocks and boulders looking out onto the water…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les Cousins du peintre (Double Portrait, The Cousins of the Painter) c.1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 58 x 75 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This portrait of Edgar Degas’s Italian cousins, Camilla and Elena Montejasi-Cicerale, is one of several that he…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) J. A. M. Whistler s.d. Oil on panel, 57.15 x 44.45 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903)
Lorenzo di Credi (c.1459-1537) Ritratto di una giovane donna (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1490–1500 Oil on wood, 58.7 x 40 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This damaged but evocative portrait has been identified as the widow of the…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di un uomo barbuto (Portrait of a Bearded Man) c.1540 Oil on canvas, 97.79 x 85.09 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Black Place I 1944 Oil on canvas, 66.04 x 76.52 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Compare: O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Black Place II 1944 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Portrait of Theodore Duret (Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black) 1883 Oil on canvas, 193.4 x 90.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Theodore Duret (1838–1927), heir to a firm of Cognac dealers, was a…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Martin Luther 1525 Oil on oak panel, 40 x 26.6 cm Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol Compare: Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Martin Luther 1529 Private Collection Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait…