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La Fornarina (c.1518-1520)

Raffaello (1483-1520) La Fornarina (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1518–1520 Oil on panel, 87 x 63 cm Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Roma Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Raphaël et la Fornarina 1814 Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA     Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)…

Au seuil de la liberté (1937)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) Au seuil de la liberté (On the Threshold of Liberty) 1937 Oil on canvas, 238.8 cm × 185.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 C. Herscovici, London / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York One of Surrealism’s…

La Danse (1909-1910)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Danse (Dance) 1909–1910 Oil on canvas, 260 x 391 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg © Succession H. Matisse The pair of panels known as “The Dance and Music” (also in the Hermitage) are amongst Matisse‘s most important –…

Diane chasseresse (1867)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Diane chasseresse (Diana) 1867 Oil on canvas, 199.5 x 129.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Renoir wrote that he had produced this painting as a study of a nude, the sort of exercise that was a mainstay of…

Andromède (1852)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Andromède (Andromeda) 1852 Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 24.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

La Liberté guidant le peuple (1830)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La Liberté guidant le peuple. Le 28 juillet 1830 (Liberty Leading the People. July 28, 1830) 1830 Oil on canvas, 260 x 325 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Other title: Une Barricade (A Barricade) Inscription: “Eug. Delacroix.1830” (in…

Venere di Urbino (1538)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere di Urbino (Venus of Urbino) 1538 Oil on canvas, 119 x 165 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vénus couchée d’Urbino, d’après le Titien 1822 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore