Tag: drapery

Le Bain de Vénus (1751)

Boucher, François (1703-1770) Le Bain de Vénus (The Bath of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 107 x 84.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In Enlightenment France the dedicated search to define truth engendered a re–evaluation of the natural. The belief that…

Ritratto di donna anziana con libro (c.1540)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di donna anziana con libro, Maria Salviati? (Portrait of an Elderly Lady with a book, Maria Salviati?) c.1540 Oil on wood panel, 127 x 100 cm Legion of Honor, San Francisco Agnolo Bronzino executed this stoic portrait around the…

Le Bohémien (1861-1862)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bohémien (The Bohemian) 1861–1862, date of rework: 1867 Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 55.3 x 2.5 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi The pose of this young man with a bent wrist recalls Renaissance painting and endows the work with…

Les Enfants luttant (1888)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les Enfants luttant (Children Wrestling) 1888 Oil on canvas, 93 x 73 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi Gauguin (1848–1903) discovered Japanese prints in 1887 through Vincent van Gogh. In 1888, for this Breton wrestling match, he adopted the aesthetic of…

Madonna col Bambino (1480-1485)

Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child, Wittgenstein Madonna) 1480–1485 Oil on wood, 109 x 85 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi Probably dating from the early 1480s, this work is very representative of the early Venetian Renaissance and the art of…

Les Amoureux (1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Amoureux (The Lovers) 1875 Oil on canvas, 175 x 130 cm National Gallery, Prague The resting pair of lovers in the middle of nature in the painting Lovers is presented in a highly dynamic painting with rapidly alternating…

Tanagra (1918)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Tanagra (The Builders, New York) 1918 Oil on canvas, 149.2 x 149 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington In Tanagra (The Builders, New York), Childe Hassam painted an ambivalent image of modern life. At the turn of the twentieth…