Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering) 1718–1721 Oil on panel, 48.6 × 64.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) Assisted by Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695-1736) Jean Antoine Watteau developed the genre of painting known as fête…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Le voleur du nid de moineaux (The Robber of the Sparrow’s Nest) c.1710 Oil on paper laid on canvas, laid on panel, 22.60 x 18.50 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Watteau shows a young couple in an idyllic woodland…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Fêtes Vénitiennes (Venetian Festivals) 1718–1719 Oil on canvas, 56.3 × 46.2 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh This is a very fine example of the ‘fêtes galantes’ perfected by Watteau. He included himself as the seated musician playing a musette.…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère (Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera) 1717 Oil on canvas, 129 × 194 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Cythera (Greece)
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Mother Combing Her Child’s Hair c.1901 Pastel on gray paper, 64.1 x 80.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Lady, probably Camilla Martelli de’ Medici) 1570s Oil on canvas mounted on board, 68.6 x 59.1 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis This woman’s exquisite attire indicates her likely wealth and…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse (Lullaby or Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle) 1889 Oil on canvas, 111 x 91 x 9 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (F 507, JH 1669) Compare: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse 1888–1889 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Van…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse (Lullaby or Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 72.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (F 508, JH 1671) While in Arles, Van Gogh painted Augustine Roulin, the wife of postal…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse (Lullaby or Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (F 505, JH 1669) Of the five versions of Van Gogh’s portrait of Augustine Roulin,…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse, portret van Madame Roulin (La Berceuse, Portrait of Madame Roulin) 1888–1889 Oil on canvas, 92 × 72.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F 504, JH 1665) She who rocks the cradle In Arles, Van Gogh befriended the…