Aalto, Alvar (1898-1976) Cantilevered Stacking Side Chair 1930 Chrome-plated tubular steel and molded plywood, 79.4 x 54.9 x 63.5 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cantilevered Stacking Side Chair (1930)
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Nastagio degli Onesti III (1483)
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, third episode 1483 Mixed method on panel, 83.5 x 142.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is the story of…
San Gerolamo nello studio (c.1475)
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) San Gerolamo nello studio (Saint Jerome in his Study) c.1475 Oil on lime, 45.7 x 36.2 cm National Gallery, London Born in the fourth century, Saint Jerome was a scholar and a monk. His translation of the…
Autoritratto (1792)
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Autoritratto (Self-portrait) 1792 Oil on canvas, 68 × 54.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Isabel la Católica (c.1848)
Madrazo y Kuntz, Luis de (1825-1897) Isabel la Católica c.1848 Oil on canvas, 225 x 140.8 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Chronological Series of the Kings of Spain was a museum project planned in 1847 by José de Madrazo to adorn…
Madame Cézanne dans la serre (1891)
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne dans la serre (Mme Cézanne in the Conservatory) 1891 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hortense Fiquet, a former artist’s model, met Cézanne about 1869; they had a son in…
Portrait d’Émile Zola (1868)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’Émile Zola (Portrait of Émile Zola) 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Olympia 1863 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco 1628–1629 Museo…
Au café (1878)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Au café (At the café) 1878 Pastel on canvas, 77 x 83 cm Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur This is the left side of a larger painting. The right half, titled Coin d’un café-concert, is in the National Gallery, London. Right…
Chez le Père Lathuille (1879)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Chez le Père Lathuille (At Père Lathuille’s) 1879 Oil on canvas, 92 x 112 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai, Tournai See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925) | Gauthier-Lathuille, Louis | Père Lathuille (Paris)
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1867-1868)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot 1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 151.4 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable painter James Tissot was Degas’s friend and mentor in the 1860s and early 1870s. Posed in a studio, top hat…