Boucher, François (1703-1770) Madame de Pompadour 1759 Oil on canvas, 91 x 68 cm Wallace Collection, London Pompadour has been famous for the important position as a patron and in politics that she obtained as Louis XV’s mistress. Because of her great…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Diane sortant du bain (Diana leaving her Bath) 1742 Oil on canvas, 57 x 73 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
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…
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Standing Female in Shirt with Black Stockings and Red Scarf (Stehendes Mädchen im Hemd, mit schwarzen Strümpfen und rotem Tuch) 1911 Gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper, 55.3 x 38.1 cm Private collection Schiele’s early watercolors and drawings…
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…
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…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les marionnettes (The puppets) 1775–1778 Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 89.8 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi
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…
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…
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…