Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Retrato de Manuelita Rosas (Portrait of Manuelita Rosas) 1851 Oil on canvas, 199 x 166 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Prilidiano Pueyrredón returned from Europe in 1851, after having left Buenos Aires in 1835.…
Cárcova, Ernesto de la (1866-1927) Retrato de la esposa del autor (Portrait of the Artist’s Wife) 1914 Oil on canvas, 182 x 125 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires See also: • Pérez del Cerro y García de Cossio,…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Santa Lucía (Saint Lucy) c.1625–1630 Oil on canvas, 104.14 × 77 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Few images of saints show women as gorgeously attired as Francisco de Zurbarán‘s. His Saint Lucy portrays the young…
Copy after Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Isabella de’ Medici (Portrait of Isabella de Medici) late 17th century Oil on limewood panel, 61 x 45.4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) was born in Florence and first trained…
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…
Abbéma, Louise (1853-1927) Portrait de Jeanne Samary, actrice française (Portrait of Jeanne Samary, French actress) c.1879 Oil on canvas Musée Carnavalet, Paris See also: • Samary, Jeanne (1857-1890)
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…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Colonna Romano 1912 Oil on canvas, 50 x 45 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Limoges, Limoges See also: • Colonna-Romano, Gabrielle (1888-1981)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) & Studio Portrait of a Woman 1635 or earlier Oil on wood, 77.5 x 64.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland At the age of 25, Rembrandt moved from his hometown of Leiden to the bustling city of…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Gold Chain 1634 Oil on panel, 69.5 x 53 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston As a young painter newly arrived in Amsterdam, Rembrandt rapidly gained fame for his stylish portraits of…