Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Girl with a Pearl Earring (Het meisje met de parel) 1665 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 39 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague A young woman looks over her shoulder at us. She holds her head slightly to one side,…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, the Artist’s Grandfather 1881 Pencil, brush and ink and watercolour, on paper, 34.5 cm x 26.1 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0876-JH0014 Etten, July 1881 See also: • Van Gogh, Vincent, Grandfather (1789-1874)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) 1863 Oil on canvas, 207 x 265 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Rejected by the jury of the 1863 Salon, Manet exhibited Le déjeuner sur l’herbe under the title Le Bain…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (Zelfportret met strohoed) 1887 Oil on canvas, 41.8 cm x 31.5 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0061v-JH1302 Paris, July-August 1887 It’s lucky for us that Van Gogh was so often unable to afford…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait or Portrait of Theo van Gogh 1887 Oil on cardboard, 19 cm x 14.1 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Paris, Summer 1887 F0294, JH1209 This painting was long thought to be a self-portrait of Vincent; however,…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ritratto di Maffeo Barberini (Portrait of Pope Urban VIII) c.1598 Oil on canvas, 124 x 90 cm Private collection, Firenze See also: • Urbanus VIII (Papa)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841–1919) La Parisienne (La Dame en Bleu, The Blue Lady) 1874 Oil on canvas, 163.2 x 108.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Henriot, Henriette (1857-1944)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Buona Ventura (The Fortune Teller) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 99 x 131 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Caravaggio (1571-1610) La Buona Ventura 1596–1597 Musei Capitolini, Roma La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Diseuse de bonne aventure probably 1630s…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ritratto di un cavaliere di Malta, Fra Antonio Martelli (Portrait of a Knight of Malta) 1608 Oil on canvas, 118.5 x 95.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze See also: • Martelli, Antonio (1534-1618)
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Edouard Blau 1866 Oil on canvas 59.5 x 43.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Blau, Édouard (1836-1906)