Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) c.1895 Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 105.5 cm Musée Picasso, Paris Brassaï, photo of Picasso in his studio at 23 rue La Boétie, standing in front of Rousseau’s Portrait of a…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La muse inspirant le poète (The Muse Inspiring the Poet) 1909 Oil on canvas, 146.2 x 96.9 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel The portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire and his partner, the painter Marie Laurencin, is one of the most famous…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait de l’artiste à la lampe (Self-portrait with a Lamp) 1903 Oil on canvas, 23 x 19 cm Musée Picasso, Paris Picasso in his studio holding Rousseau’s Self-portrait with a lamp and Portrait of the artist’s second wife with a lamp, which…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Girl with the Wineglass (Maedchen mit weinglas) c.1658–1659 Oil on canvas, 78 x 67 cm Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig Compare: Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Glass of Wine 1658–1660 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
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)