Tag: book

Femme lisant (1869-1870)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Femme lisant (A Woman Reading) 1869–1870 Oil on canvas, 54.3 × 37.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the seventy-two-year-old Corot showed A Woman Reading at the Salon of 1869, the critic Théophile Gautier praised…

Dans les bois de Giverny (1887)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Dans les bois de Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé à son chevalet et Suzanne Hoschedé lisant (In the Woods at Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading) 1887 Oil on canvas, 91.44 x 97.79 cm Los…

Claude Monet, Le Liseur (1872)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Claude Monet, Le Liseur (The Reader) 1872 Oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Monet, Claude (1840-1926)

An Elderly Man as Saint Paul (1659)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Elderly Man as Saint Paul probably 1659 Oil on canvas, 102 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London Between the late 1650s and early 1660s Rembrandt painted a series of intimate half-length pictures of religious figures. He seems…

The Holy Family with St Anne (1640)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Holy Family with St Anne 1640 Oil on panel, 41 x 34 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The Christian meaning of the painting has often been obliterated in favor of a purely secular interpretation: for example at…

Saint Matthew and the Angel (1661)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saint Matthew and the Angel 1661 Oil on canvas, 96 x 81 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris It is not certain, as Valentiner proposed, that the painting was part of a series of apostles or evangelists comparable to…