El Greco (1541-1614) Visión del Apocalipsis (The Vision of Saint John) c.1608–1614 Oil on canvas, 222.3 x 193 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting is a fragment from a large altarpiece commissioned for the church of the…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Promeneur et enfant (Stroller and Child) c.1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 55.25 × 38.42 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Sleepy Baby c.1910 Pastel on paper, 64.77 x 52.07 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Beginning in the 1880s, Mary Cassatt began to investigate themes of mothers and children. This intensely intimate, tightly cropped scene alternates between…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Le cycliste (The Bicyclist) 1951 Oil on canvas, 130.8 x 97.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Straddling a bicycle, a sturdy woman stands still. One foot rests on the right pedal, the other on the…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Natività (Nativity) c.1585–1594 Oil on canvas, 111 x 80 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The Virgin, reclining on a hay mattress, contemplates the Child Jesus lying on a blue cloth. Saint Joseph, on the…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Madonna and Child 1520 Etching on paper, 14.3 cm x 9.7 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Ciego popular en Cádiz (Popular blind man in Cadiz) s.d. Watercolor on paper, 26.5 x 17.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Costumbrista scene whose main interest lies in the fact that it is a…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Lavanderas en el bajo de Belgrano (Washerwomen in Belgrano) 1865 Oil on canvas, 102 x 126.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The first institutional destination of Lavanderas en el Bajo de Belgrano was the…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Un alto en el campo (A stop on the field) 1861 Oil on canvas, 75.5 x 166.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The newspaper La Tribuna published commentaries most likely by Miguel Cané (Senior)…
Cárcova, Ernesto de la (1866-1927) Sin pan y sin trabajo (Without Bread and Without Work) 1894 Oil on canvas, 125.5 x 216 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Sin pan y sin trabajo (Without Bread and Without Work)…