Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Frans Post c.1655 Oil on panel, 27.5 x 23 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Hals is best known for the life-like quality he gave to his subjects through innovative composition and spirited brushwork. The subject of this portrait is…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse, portret van Madame Roulin (La Berceuse, Portrait of Madame Roulin) 1888–1889 Oil on canvas, 92 × 72.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F 504, JH 1665) She who rocks the cradle In Arles, Van Gogh befriended the…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Young Man and Woman in an Inn 1623 Oil on canvas, 105.4 x 79.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted with the characteristically bold brushwork that Hals had learned from Flemish painting, this picture provides a…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) The Laughing Cavalier 1624 Oil on canvas, 83 x 67.3 cm Wallace Collection, London A highly gifted portraitist, Frans Hals had a supreme ability to characterise his sitters and make them appear lifelike. This exuberant portrait of a…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) San Filippo Neri (Saint Philip Neri) c.1703 Oil on canvas, 124 × 98 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Portrait of a Married Couple c.1617–1618 Oil on canvas, 112 × 131 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Nadar (1820-1910) Honoré Daumier 1856–1858 Salted paper print, 24.4 x 17.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This portrait of the renowned caricaturist and painter Honoré Daumier was possibly not a commissioned work, but the result of a voluntary engagement with a…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le Désespoir de Pierrot (Pierrot’s Despair) c.1910 Oil on canvas, 66.3 x 84.2 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Dr. Albert C. Barnes 1926 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 73.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Dr. Albert C. Barnes acquired and arranged all the works in these galleries between 1912 and 1951. The Italian surrealist Giorgio de Chirico…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1864–1865 Oil on canvas, 64 × 53 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Autoportrait 1859 Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA