Tag: black

Ritratto di un collezionista (c.1523)

Parmigianino (1503-1540) Ritratto di un collezionista (Portrait of a Collector) c.1523 Oil on wood, 89.5 x 63.8 cm National Gallery, London When listed in the inventory of Ranuccio Farnese in 1587 this picture was titled Portrait of a Priest, but there…

Self-Portrait (1623)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Self-Portrait 1623 Oil on panel, 85.7 x 62.2 x 0.5 cm Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, London

Portrait of a Man (1597)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer 1597 Oil on copper, 21.6 x 14.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This sensitive portrait on copper is one of Rubens’s earliest known works. The square…

La Jeune bonne (c.1918)

Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) La Jeune bonne (The Servant Girl) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 60.96 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Between 1915 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani executed many portraits in a style characterized by sparse settings and figures rendered…

Black Spot No. 3 (1919)

O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Black Spot No. 3 1919 Oil on canvas, 60.96 x 40.64 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In her earliest works, Georgia O’Keeffe sought to depict natural forces and forms. Whether abstract or more representational, her imagery remained…

Black Place II (1944)

O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Black Place II 1944 Oil on canvas, 60.6 × 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “The Black Place” was the name O’Keeffe gave to one of her favorite painting sites in New Mexico. It was a…