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La nascita di San Giovanni Battista (c.1635)

Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) La nascita di San Giovanni Battista (The Birth of Saint John the Baptist) c.1635 Oil on canvas, 184 x 258 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This canvas is one of a series of scenes from the life of…

Au café (c.1897-1899)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Au café (At the Café) c.1897–1899 Oil on board, laid on cradled panel, 28.8 x 27.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Vuillard once said, “I don’t do portraits. I paint people in their surroundings.” This scene of…

Jean dessinant (1901)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jean dessinant (The Artist’s Son, Jean, Drawing) 1901 Oil on canvas, 45.09 × 54.61 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond The simplified palette of this portrait of Renoir’s second son, Jean, is limited to a range of…

La terrasse de la Villa Brancas (1876)

Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) La terrasse de la Villa Brancas (The Terrace of the Villa Brancas) 1876 Etching on laid paper, 25.4 x 35.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Here, two women are seated on a sunny terrace in the lush landscape…

Intérieur ensoleillé (c.1920)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Intérieur ensoleillé (Sunlit Interior) c.1920 Distemper on paper on canvas, 83.2 x 63.8 cm Tate Britain, London This picture appears in the Bernheim-Jeune records under the title used here. Jacques Salomon wrote (20 October 1969) that it represents…

Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante (1852)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Watercolor over pencil, 36.8 x 47 cm Private collection Study: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Tate Britain, London     See also: • Alighieri, Dante…

Femme dans un intérieur (1935)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Femme dans un intérieur (Woman in an Interior, Madame Hessel at Les Clayes) 1935 Oil on paper, 40.9 x 55.7 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This intimate work was painted, according to Vuillard’s journal, on Easter morning…

The Bedroom (1888)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Bedroom 1888 Oil on canvas, 72.4 x 91.3 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam The portrait of Eugène Boch on the wall: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Eugène Boch 1888 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     While he was in Arles,…

Seated Youth (s.d.)

Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Seated Youth s.d. Black chalk, heightened with white, 39.5 x 26.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton