Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Samson and Delilah c.1609–1610 Oil on wood, 185 × 205 cm National Gallery, London Peter Paul Rubens’s Samson and Delilah portrays a tragedy of love and betrayal. According to the Old Testament, Samson, a Jewish hero blessed…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Portrait de Minette (Portrait of Minette) 1872 Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 35.2 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Lune en bouteille (Moon in a Bottle) 1955 Oil on canvas, 60 × 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Naturaleza muerta con botella de licor (Still life with a liqueur bottle) 1915 Oil on canvas, 50.9 x 61.2 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Abbéma, Louise (1853-1927) Sarah Bernhardt à table (Sarah Bernhardt at the Table) 1885 Gouache and pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 64 x 91 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Le petit-déjeuner à Pont-l’Evêque (Breakfast in Pont-l’Evêque) 1930 Oil on board laid down on cradled panel, 75.5 x 101.2 cm Private collection See also: • Laroche, Jean (1921-2010) | Pont-l’Evêque, Calvados (France)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Théodore Duret (Portrait of Théodore Duret) 1868 Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 35.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Duret, Théodore (1838-1927)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Sommeil (The Sleep) 1866 Oil on canvas, 135 x 200 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Faust et Méphistophélès (Faust and Mephistopheles) 1827–1828 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 37.7 cm Wallace Collection, London See also: • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Young Man and Woman in an Inn 1623 Oil on canvas, 105.4 x 79.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted with the characteristically bold brushwork that Hals had learned from Flemish painting, this picture provides a…