Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme au chapeau vert (Young woman with green hat) s.d. Pastel on paper, 56.5 x 43.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Jeune femme au chapeau vert
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Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery (1532-1535)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery 1532–1535 Oil and gold on parchment, laid down on linden, diameter 9.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Holbein painted this small roundel about 1532–35, after his…
Laura (1506)
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Laura 1506 Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 41 cm × 33.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna See also: • Noves, Laura de (1310-1348)
Madame Édouard Bernier (1871)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Édouard Bernier 1871 Oil on canvas, 78.1 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Marie-Octavie Bernier was the wife of the commander of Renoir‘s regiment during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). In the spring of…
Self Portrait at the Age of 63 (1669)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self Portrait at the Age of 63 1669 Oil on canvas, 86 x 70.5 cm National Gallery, London You are looking into the eyes of a man in the last year of his life. Rembrandt is 63 and…
An Elderly Man as Saint Paul (1659)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Elderly Man as Saint Paul probably 1659 Oil on canvas, 102 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London Between the late 1650s and early 1660s Rembrandt painted a series of intimate half-length pictures of religious figures. He seems…
Portrait of Aechje Claesdr (1634)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Aechje Claesdr 1634 Oil on oak, 71.1 x 55.9 cm National Gallery, London The optical illusion created by this painting, is a powerful one. Rembrandt has used contrasts between light and dark – for example, the…
Portrait of Titus van Rijn (c.1662)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Titus van Rijn c.1662 Oil on canvas, 72 x 56 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Since 1873 (Bode), considered a portrait of Titus, Rembrandt‘s son, while the painting passed for a long time (end of the…
Isaac Blessing Jacob (c.1638)
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Isaac Blessing Jacob c.1638 Oil on canvas, 117 x 141 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Bible recounts how Jacob, pretending to be his brother Esau, tricked their blind father into bestowing Esau’s rightful blessing on him. The idea of…
Self-Portrait (1659)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1659 Oil on canvas, 84.5 x 66 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a…