Parmigianino (1503-1540) Cupido che fabbrica l’arco (Bowcarving Cupid) 1534–1539 Oil on lime, 135.5 × 65 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The inspiration for this painting may have come from a sculpture that Parmigianino may have seen in the Grimani Collection in Venice in…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jean dessinant (The Artist’s Son, Jean, Drawing) 1901 Oil on canvas, 45.09 × 54.61 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond The simplified palette of this portrait of Renoir’s second son, Jean, is limited to a range of…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister) 1891 Painted plaster, 39.2 x 20.3 x 19.3 cm Tate Britain, London The first purchaser of this work was Walter Butterworth, who in 1911 negotiated the purchase of three bronzes by Rodin…
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Répétition du service (Rehearsing the Service) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 91.4 × 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London The French realist painter Legros moved to London in 1863, and from then exhibited both at the Royal Academy and the Paris…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Abduction of Ganymede c.1636 Oil on oak panel, 33 x 24.8 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) The Woodman’s Daughter 1851 Oil on canvas, 89 x 65 cm Guildhall Art Gallery, London Study: Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Sketch for The Woodman’s Daughter 1850 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896)
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Sketch for The Woodman’s Daughter 1850 Graphite with touches of pen and brown ink, 24.4 x 17.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This small graphite sketch is a study for a celebrated painting from 1851 by…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Seated Youth s.d. Black chalk, heightened with white, 39.5 x 26.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1884 Oil on canvas, 293.4 x 135.9 cm Tate Britain, London This work was based on Alfred Tennyson‘s poem ‘The Beggar Maid’. King Cophetua of Ethiopia falls in love with Penelophon, a…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Study of a head s.d. Oil on wooden panel, 35.5 x 25.6 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This is an oil study of one of the singing boys in the background of Edward Burne-Jones‘s best-known painting ‘King Cophetua…