Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Autoportrait, Corot à son chevalet (Self Portrait, Sitting next to an Easel) 1825 Paper mounted on canvas, 32.5 × 24.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Autorretrato ante su caballete (Self-portrait at his easel) c.1785 Oil on canvas, 40 x 27 cm Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid The execution of this canvas coincides with a decisive stage in Goya‘s life in Madrid. In…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Moi-même, Portrait-paysage (Myself, Portrait-Landscape) 1890 Oil on canvas, 146 x 113 cm National Gallery, Prague His today greatly renowned Myself: Portrait – Landscape of 1890 depicts the then new way of the artist’s perception and reflects the artistic confidence…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Art of Painting (De Schilderkunst) c.1666–1668 Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Signature: Marked on the lower border strip of the map: I Ver-Meer Inscribed on the top border of the map: NOVA…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Painter and the Buyer (Maler und Käufer) c.1566 Pen and black ink on brown paper, 25.5 x 21.5 cm Albertina, Vienna
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood 1885 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.8 cm Tate Britain, London Sargent painted two portraits of Claude Monet, one of which, showing the sitter in profile, was exhibited at…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Van Gogh peignant des tournesols (Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers) 1888 Oil on canvas, 73 x 91 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Was Van Gogh really painting a vase of sunflowers when his friend Gauguin produced this portrait of him?…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) L’Atelier de la rue de Furstenberg (The Workshop on Rue de Furstenberg) 1865–1866 Oil on canvas, 81.20 x 65 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier In Paris, Bazille moved in 1865 to 6 rue de Furstenberg, above Delacroix‘s former workshop. In…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Autoportrait (Self-portrait) 1865–1866 Oil on canvas, 108.9 x 71.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Frédéric Bazille was in his mid-20s when he executed this startlingly direct self-portrait. Depicted against a dark background with only his palette and brushes…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Frédéric Bazille peignant le héron (Frédéric Bazille painting the heron) 1867 Oil on canvas, 105 x 75.5 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Deposited by the Musée d’Orsay, 2006 (inv. D2006.3.5) Beyond being a simple portrait, this painting conceals the presence…