Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le bluff de l’aveugle (Blind man’s Bluff) c.1775–1780 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 45.1 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Jean Honore Fragonard trained in the studio of François Boucher, who painted Lovers in the Park, hanging…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Leçon de musique (The Music Lesson) 1917 Oil on canvas, 245.1 x 210.8 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Matisse set this portrait of his wife, daughter, and two sons in the living room of the family home in…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Maternité (Mother and Child) 1921 Oil on canvas, 142.9 × 172.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In 1917 Picasso traveled to Rome to design sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s famed Ballets Russes. Deeply impressed by the…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Child’s Bath 1893 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 66.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In this work, Mary Cassatt addressed the theme for which she is best known—women and children—while also experimenting with compositional elements of…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Virgen y el Niño con santa Rosa de Viterbo (The Virgin and Child with Saint Rose of Viterbo) c.1670 Oil on canvas, 190 x 147 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with The Adoration of the Magi,…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Bascule (The See-Saw) c.1750–1752 Oil on canvas, 120 x 94.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This canvas forms the pair to a painting in the Toledo Museum of Art entitled Blind Man’s Buff (Le Colin-Maillard). Both were in…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes c.1509–1510 Oil on panel, 71.5 x 44.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the leading figures in the 16th-century…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Saint Christopher (Exterior Left Wing) c.1514 Oil on panel, 85 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the most important artists…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La Madone du village (The Madonna of the Village) 1938–1942 Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 98 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid During the years of the Jewish holocaust, Chagall painted numerous religious scenes taken from the Christian tradition. He…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les enfants du pêcheur (The Fisherman’s Children) 1867 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The special appeal of this rather small canvas is threefold: It combines a calm beach at low tide with an…