Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Las gigantillas (Little Giants) 1791–1792 Oil on canvas 137 x 104 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Five boys play at riding on each other’s shoulders in the game called “Chicken Fights” or “Horse and Rider” in a setting…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga 1787–1788 Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Outfitted in a splendid red costume, the son of the count and countess of Altamira is shown between…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Garçon au chat (Young Boy with a Cat) 1868 Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 66 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris The Boy with the Cat has not given up all its secrets. This male nude has no equivalent in…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ritratto di Alof de Wignacourt (Alof de Wignacourt and his Page) c.1608 Oil on canvas, 194 x 134 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Wignacourt, Alof de (1547-1622)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) David con la testa di Golia (David and Goliath) c.1600 Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 91.3 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Compared with the many other treatments of this well-known biblical episode, the scene depicted in the Prado picture is…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Giovanni Battista (St John the Baptist) c.1602 Oil on canvas, 132 x 97 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma Compare: Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Giovanni Battista 1602 Musei Capitolini, Roma