Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) À la revue blanche, Portrait de Félix Fénéon (At the Revue Blanche, Portrait of Félix Fénéon) c.1896–1901 Oil on paperboard, 46.4 x 57.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York See also: • Fénéon, Félix (1861-1944)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Erasmus of Rotterdam 1526 Engraving in black on ivory laid paper, 25.1 × 19.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Albrecht Dürer idolized the learned Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, famously noting in his diary that Erasmus should take over…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Gustave Geffroy 1895–1896 Oil on canvas, 117 x 89.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Geffroy, Gustave (1855-1926)
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) L’empereur Napoléon dans son cabinet aux Tuileries (The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries) 1812 Oil on canvas, 203.9 × 125.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington How do portraits influence the way we see historic figures?…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Théodore Duret 1912 Oil on cardboard on wood, 95.2 x 74.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto a balding, bearded man with pale, peachy skin and wearing a three-piece suit, seated in a…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Titus at His Desk 1655 Oil on canvas, 77 x 63 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam It is possible that this is a portrait of Rembrandt‘s son Titus around the age of fourteen. Slumped over his papers,…
Rembrandt and Workshop? (1606-1669) The Apostle Paul c.1657 Oil on canvas, 131.5 x 104.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Tommaso Inghirami c.1510 Oil on wood, 90 x 62.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Lost in thought, Inghirami gazes up and to the right. Raphael may have chosen this angle to diminish the impact of the sitter’s…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Émile Zola 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Emile Zola, Cézanne‘s boyhood friend, showed an early interest in painting. He was particularly interested in the artists rejected by the official critics. In 1866,…