Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Old Lady with a Book 1637 Oil on canvas, 109.7 x 91.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months…
Rembrandt and Workshop? (1606-1669) The Apostle Paul c.1657 Oil on canvas, 131.5 x 104.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Man in Red c.1652–1654 Oil on canvas, 108 x 86 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In the 1650s Rembrandt turned increasingly to the depiction of aged men and women, seeking to bring out in these…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Man 1661 Oil on canvas, 71 x 61 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol s.d. Oil on wood, 36.5 x 28.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Coppenol, Lieven Willemsz van (1598-1667)
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Bricklayers c.1900 Oil on canvas, 26 x 21 cm Private Collection
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Self-Portrait c.1875 Lithograph on off-white wove paper, 33.9 x 21.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Boating Party 1893–1894 Oil on canvas, 90 x 117.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down into a lime-green and white rowboat carrying a woman holding a baby and a man in this…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux Courses, Le Départ (At the Races: The Start) c.1860–1862 Oil on canvas, 33 x 47 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1480–1485 Tempera and oil on wood, 37.5 x 28.3 cm National Gallery, London This apparently simple portrait of a young man was revolutionary in Italian painting. Until this moment, artists…