Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Personnes sur la plage (Figures on the Beach) 1890 Oil on canvas, 52.7 x 64.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Probably painted in 1890 on the Cote d’Azur in southern France, this sun-filled painting shows…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Titus at His Desk 1655 Oil on canvas, 77 x 63 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam See also: • Rijn, Titus van (1641-1668)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Boy c.1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 55.9 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena See also: • Rijn, Titus van (1641-1668)
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Boy with Flower Pots 1888 Oil on board, 45.7 x 37.5 cm Private Collection
Guercino (1591-1666) Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael) 1657 Oil on canvas, 115 x 154 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Guercino sets the story of Abraham, aged 100, casting out the slave Hagar and their…
Guercino (1591-1666) Visione di sant’Agostino (Saint Augustine meditating on the Trinity) 1636 Oil on canvas, 185 x 166 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid According to this saint’s story, he was walking along the seaside meditating about the mystery of the…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1480–1485 Tempera and oil on wood, 37.5 x 28.3 cm National Gallery, London This apparently simple portrait of a young man was revolutionary in Italian painting. Until this moment, artists…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Tre miracoli di San Zanobi (Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius) c.1500 Tempera on wood, 64.8 x 139.7 cm National Gallery, London This is the second panel in a series of four paintings that tell the story of Florence’s patron…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Belle Jardinière (Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist) c.1507–1508 Oil on panel, 122 x 80 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Fifre (The Fifer) 1866 Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 97 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Koelin-Leenhoff, Léon (1852-1927)