Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Apparition d’un visage et d’un compotier sur une plage (Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach) 1938 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 143.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: At first glance the spectator sees a desolate…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1863 Oil on panel, 25.4 x 46.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)
Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) Limier Briquet Hound c.1856 Oil on canvas, 36.8 x 45.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting, made from life about 1856, depicts a dog that belonged to a gentleman known as the Vicomte d’Armaille. It…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Capriccio con arco romano (Capriccio with a Roman Arch) c.1745 Oil on canvas, 58.4 x 91.4 cm Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Deux femmes au piano (Two Women at Piano) c.1913 Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 66.4 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Ma chambre préférée (My Favorite Room) 1892 Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-portrait in Oriental Costume 1631 Oil on panel, 63 x 56 cm Petit Palais, Paris Rembrandt has left us more self-portraits than any other artist in the world, around eighty (around forty paintings, nearly thirty engravings and seven drawings), not…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Diana Resting c.1640–1650 Oil on canvas, 123 x 159 cm Petit Palais, Paris Cézanne, who once said, “It is grotesque to imagine that we grow like a fungus, when we have all the generations behind us. Why not…
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) The Wedding Procession 1623 Oil on panel, 71.5 x 122 cm Petit Palais, Paris A long wedding procession makes its way along the main road of a village, from the centre of the parish, shown on…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Knight, Death and the Devil 1513 Burin engraving, 24.6 x 19 cm Petit Palais, Paris Dürer was a painter, drawer, art theoretician and a wood and copper engraver, and one of the greatest creative talents in Western Art.…