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L’Appel

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Appel (The call) s.d. Pencil on paper, 44 x 36 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Compare: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Appel 1902 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland    

L’Enfant à l’épée (1861)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Enfant à l’épée (Boy with a Sword) 1861 Oil on canvas, 131.1 x 93.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet’s stepson, Léon Koëlla-Leenhoff, recalled that he had posed for this picture in 1861, when he…

Eleonora di Toledo col figlio (c.1545-1550)

Bronzino (1503-1572) & Workshop Eleonora di Toledo col figlio (Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son) c.1545–1550 Oil on panel, 121.6 x 100 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Portraiture was an important political tool for the ducal Medici family. Often…

Les Amants (1928)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) Les Amants (The Lovers) 1928 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this unsettling image—the first in a series of four variations of Les Amants that Magritte painted in 1928—the…

A Young Man with a Chain (c.1629 or 1632)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) & Studio A Young Man with a Chain c.1629 or 1632 Oil on wood, 57.8 x 43.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This painting is an example of a tronie, a Dutch word meaning “head” or “facial…

A Franciscan Friar (c.1655)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Franciscan Friar c.1655 Oil on canvas, 89 x 66.5 cm National Gallery, London This man is wearing the habit of a Franciscan friar (this order of monks was founded to follow the teachings of Saint Francis of…

An Elderly Man as Saint Paul (1659)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Elderly Man as Saint Paul probably 1659 Oil on canvas, 102 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London Between the late 1650s and early 1660s Rembrandt painted a series of intimate half-length pictures of religious figures. He seems…