Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-portrait in Oriental Costume 1631 Oil on panel, 63 x 56 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Self-portrait in Oriental Costume (1631)
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La Rêveuse (1712-1714)
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Rêveuse (The Dreamer) 1712–1714 Oil on panel, 23.2 × 17 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The traditional title of this small painting, The Dreamer, derives from an engraving made after it, which was intended for sale to…
Autoportrait en costume (1862-1864)
Nadar (1820-1910) Autoportrait en costume (Self-Portrait in Costume) 1862–1864 Salted paper print from glass negative, 22.1 x 13.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In the early 1860s, the famous portrait photographer Nadar was spotted at Parisian soirées decked out in…
Pierrot riant (1855)
Nadar (1820-1910) Pierrot riant (Pierrot Laughing) 1855 Gelatin-coated salted paper print, 27.3 x 19.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York We owe the contemporary image of Pierrot to the famous mime Jean-Gaspard Baptiste Duburau, who replaced the ruff and wide white…
Le Désespoir de Pierrot (c.1910)
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le Désespoir de Pierrot (Pierrot’s Despair) c.1910 Oil on canvas, 66.3 x 84.2 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Théâtre de masques (1908)
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Théâtre de masques (Theatre of Masks) 1908 Oil on canvas, 72 x 86 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Masks, both diabolic and caricaturesque, are one of the principal motifs found throughout the entire artistic output of the Belgian painter James…
Jardin d’amour (c.1925)
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Jardin d’amour (Love garden) c.1925 Oil on panel, 36.8 x 46 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection The characters of a masked ball appear in a garden framed, like a stage, by tall trees. To…
Au cirque (1899)
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Au cirque (At the Circus) 1899 Crayon, pastel, and watercolor on wove paper, 25.1 × 35.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Depicted here is a scene from the ballet Papa Chrysantheme performed in 1892 at the…
Le Guitariste espagnol (1894)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Guitariste espagnol (The Spanish Guitarist) 1894 Oil on canvas, 65.4 × 54.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Harmony in Blue: The Duet (c.1874)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Harmony in Blue: The Duet c.1874 Oil on panel, 27.3 x 47 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence