Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Régates à Sainte-Adresse (Regatta at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 101.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet spent the summer of 1867 at Sainte-Adresse, a well-to-do suburb of Le Havre on the Normandy…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Bacchante dans un paysage (Bacchante in a Landscape) 1865–1870 Oil on canvas, 30.8 x 61.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting is closely related to Bacchante by the Sea, also in the Museum’s collection,…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Paysage près de Paris (Landscape near Paris) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 60 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Across a grassy field, a row of buildings and two trees line the horizon, which comes about halfway…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La Inmaculada Concepción (Immaculate Conception) 1628–1630 Oil on canvas, 128 x 89 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The worship of the Immaculate Virgin is one of seventeenth-century Spain‘s identity traits, especially following a considerable argument between…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Benito (Saint Benedict) c.1640–1645 Oil on canvas, 188 x 103.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting formed part of a series by Zurbarán representing the thirteen founders of monastic orders, known today…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Madame Brunet (Portrait of Madame Brunet) c.1860–1863, reworked by 1867 Oil on canvas, 132.4 x 100 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles This portrait’s bold brushwork, stark contrasts of light and dark, and frank presentation of the sitter…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae 1560–1565 Oil on canvas, 129.8 x 181.2 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The first Poesie presented to Prince Philip were Danaë (1553, The Wellington Collection) and Venus and Adonis (1554, Museo del Prado, P422), versions of other…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae c.1545 Oil on canvas, 118.5 x 170 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) 1515 Oil on canvas, 90 x 72 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma This early masterpiece by Titian, which illustrates the terrible biblical episode in a dark…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Venere e il suonatore di liuto (Venus and the Lute Player) c.1565–1570 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned…