Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Mademoiselle Sicot 1865 Oil on canvas, 116 x 89.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the knees up, a woman with pale, pink skin and cinnamon-brown hair sits with her hands in her lap…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait de Madame Anne-Marie Hagen 1879 Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.2 cm Private collection Born into a wealthy Normandy family, Gustave Caillebotte was at the centre of the Impressionist movement, exhibiting with the group from 1876…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) A la Bastille, Jeanne Wenz (At the Bastille, Jeanne Wenz) 1888 Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 49.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Wenz, Jeanne
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Édouard Bernier 1871 Oil on canvas, 78.1 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Marie-Octavie Bernier was the wife of the commander of Renoir‘s regiment during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). In the spring of…
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…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nu assis (Seated Nude) 1913 Oil on canvas Private collection
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Ecce Homo 1634 Oil on paper mounted onto canvas, 54.5 x 44.5 cm National Gallery, London ‘Ecce Homo’, the Latin title of this painting, is taken from the Bible, and means ‘Behold the man!’ These were the words…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Anna and the Blind Tobit c.1630 Oil on oak, 63.8 x 47.7 cm National Gallery, London Even as a young man, Rembrandt was interested in the depiction of old age and aged people. He painted them as if…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Supper at Emmaus 1648 Oil on mahogany, 68 x 65 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Scene taken from the Gospel of Saint Luke (XXIV, 13-33), in which Christ, the day after his resurrection, reveals his divinity to…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Tobit and Anna with the Kid 1626 Oil on panel, 39.5 x 30 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Interior with Tobit and Anna with the kid. On the left, the old blind Tobit sits with his dog by a fire.…