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Susanna e i Vecchioni (1552-1555)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Susanna e i Vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1552–1555 Oil on canvas, 58 x 116 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This canvas is part of a group of six paintings: Susannah and the Elders (P386), Esther and…

Madame Gautreau (1891)

Courtois, Gustave (1853-1923) Madame Gautreau 1891 Oil on canvas, 106 x 58.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Avegno Gautreau, Virginie Amélie (1859–1915)

La femme à la rose (1884)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) La femme à la rose (Woman with a Rose) 1884 Oil on canvas, 72.7 x 60.3 cm Private collection The presence of women in Caillebotte‘s work is rare relative to his contemporaries, such as Edgar Degas and…

Portrait de Madame Anne-Marie Hagen (1879)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait de Madame Anne-Marie Hagen 1879 Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.2 cm Private collection Born into a wealthy Normandy family, Gustave Caillebotte was at the centre of the Impressionist movement, exhibiting with the group from 1876…

La Rêverie (1877)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Rêverie, ou Portrait de l’actrice Jeanne Samary (Daydreaming or Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary) 1877 Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow Female images occupy a special place in Renoir‘s work, becoming…

La danseuse (1874)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La danseuse (The Dancer) 1874 Oil on canvas, 142.5 x 94.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington The Dancer was one of seven works that Renoir included in the first exhibition of the Société anonyme coopérative des…

Madame Charpentier et ses enfants (1878)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Charpentier et ses enfants (Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children) 1878 Oil on canvas, 153.7 x 190.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this commissioned portrait, as Marcel Proust observed, Renoir gave expression to…

Les Filles de Catulle Mendès (1888)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Filles de Catulle Mendès (Daughters of Catulle Mendès) 1888 Oil on canvas, 161.9 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hoping to recapture the success he had achieved with Madame Georges Charpentier and Her…

Belshazzar’s Feast (c.1636-1638)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Belshazzar’s Feast c.1636–1638 Oil on canvas, 167.6 x 209.2 cm National Gallery, London Belshazzar’s Feast was painted somewhere between 1636 and 1638, when Rembrandt was about 30 years old. He had to make his way in Amsterdam, a…