Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV, cazador (Philip IV in Hunting Dress) 1632–1634 Oil on canvas, 189 x 124 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Between 1635 and 1637, important additions were made to the Torre de la Parada, the king’s hunting…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV (Philip IV) 1626–1628 Oil on canvas, 57 x 44 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is an extraordinary example of the eventful life of many royal portraits during the Siglo de Oro, and it shows…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV (Philip IV) 1623 Oil on canvas, 198 x 101.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid We see King Philip IV of Spain (r. 1621-1665) when he was around twenty years old in an austere image filled…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Adoración de los Reyes Magos (Adoration of the Magi) 1619 Oil on canvas, 203 x 125 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Painted in Seville in 1619, The Adoration of the Magi is the largest of Velázquez‘s early…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Retrato de hombre (Portrait of a Man) c.1623 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 38 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The pragmatic of January 1623 that dictated a new dress code and has since been used to date…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Eugène Manet et sa fille dans le jardin de Bougival (Eugène Manet and His Daughter in the Garden at Bougival) 1883 Oil on canvas, 60 x 73.5 cm Private collection See also: • Bougival (France) | Eugène Manet (1833-1892) | Julie Manet (1878-1966)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de Julie Manet (Portrait of Julie Manet) 1894 Oil on canvas, 55 × 46 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Like Claude Monet and Stéphane Mallarmé, Renoir was close to Berthe Morisot, who dated the beginning of…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Self-Portrait 1906 Oil on canvas, 69.8 × 53 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The famous collection of artists’ self-portraits housed in the Vasari Corridor in Florence, which links the Uffizi Gallery with the Palazzo Pitti, goes…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Autoportrait ou Corot, la palette à la main (Self Portrait or Corot, palette in hand) c.1835 Oil on canvas, 33 × 25 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Uffizi asked Corot for a self-portrait in 1872. Shortly after…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’Ernest Hoschedé et sa fille Marthe (Ernest Hoschedé with his daughter Marthe) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 97.5 x 130 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The Portrait of Ernest Hoschedé and his Daughter is…