Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Le Pierrot au livre (Pierrot with Book) 1924 Oil on canvas, 65.5 × 50.8 cm Tate Britain, London On display at Tate Modern. Although this painting is resolutely figurative, it is strongly influenced by Cubism. Pierrot’s upper body…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Eugène Boch 1888 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 45.4 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Van Gogh met the Belgian painter Eugène Boch (1855-1941) in mid-June 1888, while Boch was spending a few weeks near Arles. Around 8 July, Vincent…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Émile Bernard 1886 Oil on canvas, 54 x 44.5 cm National Gallery, London On loan from Tate: Bequeathed by Arthur Jeffress 1961. Emile Bernard was a fellow student of Toulouse-Lautrec with a reputation for artistic audacity. He…
Nadar (1820-1910) Charles Baudelaire c.1854 Gelatin silver print, 19.6 x 14.6 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867)
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Coventry Kersey Deighton Patmore 1894 Oil on canvas, 91.4 × 61 cm National Portrait Gallery, London See also: • Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896)
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Napoléon en Egypte (Napoleon in Egypt) 1867–1868 Oil on wood panel, 35.8 x 25 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton During the Second Empire (1852–70), Napoleon III encouraged the cult of his uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte, whose 1798 Egyptian…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Seated Youth s.d. Black chalk, heightened with white, 39.5 x 26.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors c.1874 Oil on canvas, 160 × 114.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Outside the National Gallery in London a fashionable tourist couple decides what to see next. The woman points her umbrella imperiously in the…
Morris, William (1834-1896) La Belle Iseult 1858 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married…
Scott, William Bell (1811-1890) Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne 1860 Oil on canvas, 47 3/4 x 31.7 in. Private collection See also: • Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)