Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Juliette Courbet 1860 Oil on canvas, 127 x 100.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Gustave Courbet took a modern approach to portraiture in this seemingly unfinished painting. He depicted his sister Juliette in a frank and…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Les deux soeurs (The Two Sisters) 1859 Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 130.5 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis This double portrait shows the two younger sisters of the painter; Marie reads on the right while Nathalie…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Head of a Peasant Woman 1884 Oil on canvas, 43.8 x 34.6 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Vincent van Gogh always felt deep sympathy for the peasant classes and here tenderly depicted the full, sunburnt features…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Elvira reposant à une table (Elvira Resting at a Table) c.1918–1919 Oil on canvas, 92.7 × 60.5 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis This woman was one of Amedeo Modigliani’s favorite models, a young worker known only…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) A Young Archer c.1639–1640 Oil on oak panel, 66.2 x 50.8 cm Wallace Collection, London
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Man early 1650s Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 86.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this canvas of the early 1650s, the figure’s pose follows a pattern Hals employed twenty years earlier, but here…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Woman c.1648 Oil on canvas, 108 x 80 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Dated around 1648 and perhaps, according to Grimm, a work by Jan Hals, in comparison with the latter’s Portrait of a Lady,…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Portrait of a Married Couple c.1617–1618 Oil on canvas, 112 × 131 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Sustermans, Justus (1597-1681) Ritratto di Galileo Galilei (Portrait of Galileo Galilei) 1635 Oil on canvas, 56 x 48 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The portrait of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is one of Sustermans’ most famous works. It was commissioned by Elia…
