Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Condesa del Carpio, Marquesa de la Solana (The Countess del Carpio, Marquesa de la Solana) c.1794–1795 Oil on canvas, 181 x 122 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Born on May 23, 1757 in Bilbao, María Rita Barrenechea y…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Los cómicos ambulantes (The Strolling Players) 1793 Oil on tinplate, 42.5 x 31.7 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This popular scene painted with great technical freedom shows an improvised stage surrounded by people in the midst of a…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) El columpio (The Swing) 1779 Oil on canvas, 260 x 165 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This cartoon, the pair to The Washerwomen (P-786), depicts three women and four elegantly dressed children with their dog on a…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Las floreras, o La Primavera (The Flower Girls, or Spring) 1786 Oil on canvas, 277 x 192 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A young woman holding a girl by the hand receives a rose from another who kneels…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Intérieur (Interior) 1880 Oil on canvas, 116 x 89 cm Private collection
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Le Pont de l’Europe 1876 Oil on canvas, 124.8 x 180.7 cm Musée du Petit Palais, Genève Compare: Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Étude pour “Le Pont de l’Europe” 1876 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Le pont de l’Europe…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Rue de Paris, temps de pluie (Paris Street, Rainy Day) 1877 Oil on canvas, 212.2 x 276.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This complex intersection, just minutes away from the Saint-Lazare train station, represents in microcosm the changing…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot, Young Lady in 1866) 1866 Oil on canvas, 185.1 x 128.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet’s model, Victorine Meurent, had recently posed as the brazen nudes in…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Olympia 1863 Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 191 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris With Olympia, Manet reworked the traditional theme of the female nude, using a strong, uncompromising technique. Both the subject matter and its depiction explain the scandal…
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Ritratto di Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani (Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 114.62 x 94.62 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Ginevra Aldrovandi’s husband, the Bolognese senator Ercole Hercolani, died in 1593. Her elaborate mourning costume-with costly…