Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Aeolus early 17th century Oil on canvas, 140 x 126 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This work, together with Vulcano y el fuego (P1717), has been considered part of a possible series of four paintings that would…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
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…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con reminiscenze di Padova (Capriccio with Reminiscences of Padua) c.1740–1745 Etching, 30.16 x 43.18 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo See also: • Padova (Italia)
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…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La Voix des airs (The Voice of Space) 1928 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 49.53 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Surrealist René Magritte is best known for creating unusual compositions that are wonderfully strange in their illustrative…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Rue de village à Marlotte (Village Street in Marlotte) 1866 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 91.44 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Although Alfred Sisley is considered one of the key figures of Impressionism, he remained somewhat of…
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) Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (Towpath at Argenteuil, Winter) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100.01 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1871, following the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the newly wed Claude Monet moved from…