Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Le pont de l’Europe c.1876 Oil on canvas Private collection Compare: Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Étude pour “Le Pont de l’Europe” 1876 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Le Pont de l’Europe 1876 Musée du Petit Palais, Genève …
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Père Paul 1882 Oil on canvas, 64.5 × 52.1 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna The light! The colors! Impressionist paintings seem to glow from within. Pink, blue and green stand side by side in many different shades. Up…
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Ritratto di uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1528 Oil on panel, 58 x 46 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This panel is first documented in connection with the Borghese Collection in 1693, when it was inventoried as a work by Parmigianino.…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait de Madame X (Portrait of Madame X) 1878 Pastel, 63 x 50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier A central figure in Impressionism, Caillebotte trained in 1871 in the very academic studio of Léon Bonnat. While he passed the entrance…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Rencontre ou Bonjour Monsieur Courbet (The Meeting or Hello M. Courbet) 1854 Oil on canvas, 132.40 x 151 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Montpellier, painted by the artist for Alfred Bruyas (1821-1877), 1854; gift from Alfred Bruyas to the…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) c.1546–1548 Oil on canvas, 45.1 × 38.1 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia This dramatically intimate self-portrait announced the arrival of a new talent on the Venetian art scene; Tintoretto painted it when he was just beginning…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Autoritratto (Self-portrait) c.1692 Oil on canvas, 63 x 49 cm Pio Monte della Misericordia, Napoli
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Jeune femme descendant les marches de la National Gallery à Londres (Young woman descending the steps of the National Gallery in London) 1878 Etching, 37.8 x 21 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Compare: Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors c.1874 Toledo Museum of…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Autoportrait à la casquette (Self-Portrait in a Casquette) c.1872 Oil on canvas, 53 x 39.7 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Painted in the early 1870s, at a time when Cézanne was closest of all to the Impressionists, this…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Self-Portrait when Young 1753–1758 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 61.6 cm Tate Britain, London This self-portrait was probably painted soon after Reynolds set up a studio in London in 1753. He had spent the previous three years studying art…