Guercino (1591-1666) San Pietro liberato da un angelo (Saint Peter freed by an Angel) c.1622 Oil on canvas, 105 x 136 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A youthful looking angel with curly hair imperiously points out the path of freedom…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin 1888 Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 50.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In early 1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles in the south of France, where he hoped to establish an…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Le thé (The Tea) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 92.07 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cassatt’s paintings often document the social interactions of well-to-do women like herself. The activities they depict—tea drinking, going to the…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Loge c.1878–1880 Oil on canvas, 79.8 x 63.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the knees up, two young women with pale, peachy skin wearing white gowns sit close together and almost fill this…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Dante et Virgile (Dante and Virgil) 1850 Oil on canvas, 280.5 x 225.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Having failed on two occasions to win the Prix de Rome (1848 and 1849), Bouguereau was hungry for revenge. His…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Pierre-Henri Renoir 1870 Oil on canvas, 81 x 64.1 cm Private collection Companion: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Pierre Henri Renoir 1870 Fogg Museum, Cambridge See also: • Renoir, Pierre Henri (1832-1903)