Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) c.1888 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 46.7 x 38.1 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Jockey au casquette rouge (Jockey with Red Cap) c.1866–1868 Oil on paper, mounted to cardboard, mounted to wood panel, 46.2 x 30.6 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Under the Horse Chestnut Tree 1896–1897 Etching and aquatint, 41 x 29.2 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Esquisse pour l’Hommage à Delacroix (Sketch for the Homage to Delacroix) c.1863 Oil on canvas, 25.5 × 26 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Delacroix,…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Fenaison à Éragny (Haymaking at Éragny) 1901 Oil on canvas, 53.9 x 64.7 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa See also: • Éragny-sur-Epte (France)
Morisot, Edma (1839-1921) Berthe Morisot c.1865 Oil on canvas, 100 x 71 cm Private collection See also: • Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895)
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Troubadour (The Troubadour) 1868–1873 Oil on fabric, 83.6 x 56.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Daumier was called the “Michelangelo of caricature” and especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le Repos (Rest) 1879 Oil on fabric, 164.5 x 117.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland One of the most celebrated academic painters of his time, Bouguereau underscores the moral virtues of the Italian peasants in this painting…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Portrait de l’artiste (Portrait of the Artist) c.1891 Oil on canvas, 32.4 x 24.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris