Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Ritratto di Gian Paolo Zappi (Portrait of Gian Paolo Zappi) c.1577 Oil on copper, 17 x 14 cm Museo de Zaragoza, Zaragoza Recto: Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Autoritratto c.1577 Museo de Zaragoza, Zaragoza Double portrait of a married couple. See also:…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Parau Parau (Whispered Words) 1892 Oil on canvas, 77.1 × 96.5 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La educación de la Virgen (The Education of the Virgin) c.1617–1618 Oil on canvas, 168 × 136 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les demoiselles de village (Young Ladies of the Village) 1866 (September 1) Etching on paper, 35.5 x 52.7 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Compare: Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Jeunes femmes du village 1851–1852 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) El regreso del hijo pródigo (The Return of the Prodigal Son) 1667–1670 Oil on canvas, 236.3 x 261 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Murillo‘s great talent for dramatic painting is apparent in this monumental depiction of…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Les Fables de La Fontaine: Le Cerf et la Vigne (The Fables of La Fontaine: The Deer and the Vine) 1927–1930 Etching and roulette Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-1695)
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Rabbit Hunt 1560 Etching, 22.1 x 29 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In this etching considered the artist’s only autograph print, Pieter Bruegel the Elder replicated the graphic vocabulary of dots and dashes of…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Hunting near Hartenfels Castle 1540 Oil on wood transferred to masonite, 116.8 x 170.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Protestant rulers of Saxony commissioned this animated hunt scene, set near their residence seen in…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Piazza San Marco late 1760s Oil on canvas, 68.9 x 85.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This view can be compared to Canaletto’s of the same location painted forty years prior. Guardi’s technique is far looser…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Dame au chien (A Woman with a Dog) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting belongs to a celebrated group of Fragonards known as the fantasy figures. The canvas…