Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Tre donne (Three Women) 1909–1910 Oil on canvas, 180 × 132 cm Banca Commerciale Italiana, Milano The artist represents the three ages of women through the figures of her mother Cecilia, her beloved sister Amelia and the model Ines.…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Retrato de Manuelita Rosas (Portrait of Manuelita Rosas) 1851 Oil on canvas, 199 x 166 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Prilidiano Pueyrredón returned from Europe in 1851, after having left Buenos Aires in 1835.…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Séduction (Seduction, The Proposal) 1872 Oil on canvas, 163.5 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The motif of a young man at a window, wooing a woman at her spinning wheel, and the vaguely…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de Jeanne Samary en pied (Portrait of Jeanne Samary Standing) 1878 Oil on canvas, 174 x 105 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Jeanne Samary was an actress at the Comedie-Francaise. This portrait of her is perhaps…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) L’odalisque (Odalisque) 1870 Oil on canvas, 69.2 x 122.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman wearing a sheer white blouse, short red and gold vest, and full-legged, patterned pants cinched below the knee lies back…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Charpentier et ses enfants (Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children) 1878 Oil on canvas, 153.7 x 190.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this commissioned portrait, as Marcel Proust observed, Renoir gave expression to…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Return of the Prodigal Son c.1668 Oil on canvas, 262 x 205 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg At one moment in his youth Rembrandt depicted himself in one of his many self-portraits as a reveller and spoilt child of…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Cleopatra’s Banquet c.1675–1680 Oil on canvas, 74 x 95.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Cleopatra made a bet with Mark Antony on who could give the most lavish banquet. She won by dissolving a priceless pearl in vinegar and…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) A Grecian Flower Market (A Flower Stall) 1880 Oil on canvas, 57.8 x 79.3 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
