Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Raphaël et la Fornarina (Raphael and the Fornarina) 1814 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 53.3 cm Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Compare: Raffaello (1483-1520) La Fornarina c.1518–1520 Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Roma Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna della Seggiola…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Honeysuckle Bower c.1609–1610 Oil on canvas, transferred to wood, 178 x 136.5 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Rubens returned to Antwerp in 1608 after an eight-year stay in Italy. The following year he married Isabella Brant. This…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life) 1925 Oil on canvas, 100.01 x 80.01 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Marc Chagall was born into a Hasidic Jewish family in an area of the Russian Empire that is now Belarus.…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Les Soupeurs (The Diners) 1901 Oil on cardboard, 47.3 x 62.4 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Il poeta e la sua musa (The Poet and His Muse) c.1925 Oil and tempera on canvas, 91.1 x 73.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Conversation in a Park (Gainsborough and his wife?) c.1746–1748 Oil on canvas, 73 × 68 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris An early example of a conversation piece by Gainsborough. Often compared with Gainsborough‘s drawn portrait, from the same…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le café de nuit (The Night Café) 1888 Oil on canvas, 72.4 × 92.1 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven See also: • Arles (France)
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le Baiser dérobé (The Stolen Kiss) c.1760 Oil on canvas, 48.3 x 63.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A masterfully executed, incandescent glow highlights fitful hands and a kiss won in a card game. While Fragonard…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) A Street in Venice c.1880–1882 Oil on canvas, 75.1 x 52.4 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Venezia (Italia)
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Towards the forest II (Mot skogen II) 1915 Colour woodcut, 50.6 × 64.8 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne