Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) La Paix (Peace) 1860 Oil on canvas, 85.1 x 107.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
La Paix (1860)
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Giuditta e Oloferne (c.1554)
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Giuditta e Oloferne (Judith and Holofernes) c.1554 Oil on panel, 108 x 79.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Autoportrait (c.1920-1921)
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) c.1920–1921 Oil on canvas, 54 × 30.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Chaim Soutine (1917)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Chaim Soutine 1917 Oil on canvas, 91.7 x 59.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Born in 1884 to an aristocratic family in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani settled in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris in 1906 and began…
Le Pâtissier (c.1919)
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Le Pâtissier (The Pastry Chef, Baker Boy) c.1919 Oil on canvas, 66 x 51 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia When Albert Barnes first visited Chaim Soutine‘s Paris studio in 1922, the struggling artist was known only in the city’s…
Retrato de Luis Buñuel (1924)
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Retrato de Luis Buñuel (Portrait of Luis Buñuel) 1924 Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid See also: • Buñuel, Luis (1900-1983)
San Pietro (s.d.)
Martini, Simone (c.1284-1344) San Pietro (St. Peter) s.d. Tempera and gold on panel, 58 x 38.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection As is required by an iconographic tradition without exceptions, St. Peter is represented as an old man holding…
Arlequín con espejo (1923)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Arlequín con espejo (Harlequin with a Mirror) 1923 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid Initially intended as a self-portrait, Harlequin with a Mirror combines three characters from the circus and…
Venus and Cupid (c.1606-1611)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Cupid c.1606–1611 Oil on canvas, 137 x 111 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Rubens was the most outstanding of all Flemish painters, and a leading exponent of Baroque art. The Toilet of Venus is one of…
The Laughing Cavalier (1624)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) The Laughing Cavalier 1624 Oil on canvas, 83 x 67.3 cm Wallace Collection, London A highly gifted portraitist, Frans Hals had a supreme ability to characterise his sitters and make them appear lifelike. This exuberant portrait of a…