Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment with two of her children (Clara Johanna, born in 1632, and Frans, born in 1633) c.1636 Oil on panel, 115 x 85 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted around 1636, given the ages of the…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Old Woman and Boy with Candles c.1616–1617 Oil on panel, 62.5 x 77 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) The Virgin and Child with a Monkey c.1498 Engraving, 19.05 x 12.07 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Albrecht Dürer’s prints are characterized by nearly ethereal transitions from dark to light. From the fineness of the monkey’s wiry fur…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Une laveuse au Quai d’Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d’Anjou) c.1860 Oil on wood, 28.57 x 19.68 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Through light and shadow, Honoré Daumier empathetically responded to the effects of increasing industrialization in…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Rue de Meknès (Street in Meknes) 1832 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 64.13 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo See also: • Meknes (Morocco)
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Promenade dans les prés à Argenteuil (A Walk in the Meadows at Argenteuil) 1873 Oil on canvas, 32.4 x 49.2 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • Argenteuil (France) | Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879) | Monet, Jean (1867-1914)
Blake, William (1757-1827) Baptism of Christ c.1799 Tempera over pen and ink on canvas, 32.4 x 49.2 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Figures sur une plage (Figures on a Beach) c.1863 Oil on panel, 21.9 x 45.4 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Under the Horse Chestnut Tree 1896–1897 Etching and aquatint, 41 x 29.2 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence