Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Laura 1506 Canvas on (old) spruce wood, 41 × 33.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The young lady in a red, fur-lined coat, named after the laurel (lauro) that entails her, is, with the exception of the “Vanitas” in…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) La Tempesta (The Tempest) c.1503–1509 Oil on canvas, 73 x 82 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Attested as part of Gabriele Vendramin’s collection by Marcantonio Michiel in 1530 and later in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century family inventories, The Tempest…
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)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Source (The Source) 1875 Oil on canvas, 131 x 77.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia The model here is Henriette Henriot, an actress who posed frequently for Renoir during his impressionist years. Renoir captures her in a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Henriot c.1876 Oil on canvas, 65.8 x 49.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Henriot, Henriette (1857-1944)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Petite étude pour un nu (Small Study for a Nude) 1882 Oil on canvas, 13.3 x 10.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nu (Nude) c.1895 Oil on canvas, 84.3 x 67.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Maternité, dit aussi l’Enfant au sein / Madame Renoir et son fils Pierre (Maternity or Child at the Breast / Madame Renoir and her son Pierre) 1885 Oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Maternité (Maternity: Madame Renoir and Son) c.1916 Terra cotta, 51.1 x 24.8 x 32.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Renoir‘s wife Aline had always been among his favorite models. Her fresh, full face and figure appeared…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) L’odalisque (Odalisque) 1870 Oil on canvas, 69.2 x 122.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman wearing a sheer white blouse, short red and gold vest, and full-legged, patterned pants cinched below the knee lies back…