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Self-Portrait (1660)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1660 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rembrandt was a dedicated self-portraitist all his life, and roughly forty self-portraits by him survive today. In this example, painted when Rembrandt was fifty-four,…

The Standard Bearer, Floris Soop (1654)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Standard Bearer, Floris Soop 1654 Oil on canvas, 140.3 x 114.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The flag, the plume in the hat, and the tooled leather baldric (sword-belt) indicate that the figure is an ensign…

La princesse Pauline de Metternich (c.1865)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La princesse Pauline de Metternich (Princess Pauline de Metternich) c.1865 Oil on canvas, 41 x 29 cm National Gallery, London Princess Pauline Sander (1836–1921) was the wife of Prince Richard Metternich, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at the court…

Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (1657)

Guercino (1591-1666) Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael) 1657 Oil on canvas, 115 x 152 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Guercino sets the story of Abraham, aged 100, casting out the slave Hagar and their…

Cardinale Francesco Cennini (1625)

Guercino (1591-1666) Cardinale Francesco Cennini (Cardinal Francesco Cennini) 1625 Oil on canvas, 117.4 x 96.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Cennini, Francesco (1566-1645)

Antonin Proust (1880)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Antonin Proust 1880 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 95.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo This portrait was painted in a single sitting using unprepared canvas. Exhibited at the 1880 Paris Salon, it was praised by some for…

Portrait d’Alfred Sisley (1864)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait d’Alfred Sisley (Portrait of Alfred Sisley) 1864 Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm Bührle Collection, Zürich See also: • Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899)

Ritratto del Cardinale Bibbiena (c.1516)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto del Cardinale Bibbiena (Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena) c.1516 Oil on panel, 85 x 66.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Bernardo Dovizi (Bibbiena 1470– Rome 1520) was a scholar and a diplomat, as well as a friend and trusted private secretary…