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La petite fille à l’arrosoir (1876)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La petite fille à l’arrosoir (A Girl with a Watering Can) 1876 Oil on canvas, 100 x 73 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In 1876, Renoir began to paint anecdotal depictions of women and children, subjects…

Madame Édouard Bernier (1871)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Édouard Bernier 1871 Oil on canvas, 78.1 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Marie-Octavie Bernier was the wife of the commander of Renoir‘s regiment during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). In the spring of…

Lucretia (1666)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Lucretia 1666 Oil on canvas, 110.17 x 92.28 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis

A Young Man with a Chain (c.1629 or 1632)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) & Studio A Young Man with a Chain c.1629 or 1632 Oil on wood, 57.8 x 43.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This painting is an example of a tronie, a Dutch word meaning “head” or “facial…

Portrait of a Woman (1635)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) & Studio Portrait of a Woman 1635 or earlier Oil on wood, 77.5 x 64.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland At the age of 25, Rembrandt moved from his hometown of Leiden to the bustling city of…

Bust of a Man in Oriental Dress (1633)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bust of a Man in Oriental Dress 1633 Oil on oak, 85.8 x 63.8 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Paintings of individual figures in Holland in the seventeenth century that were neither portraits nor history paintings are called tronies…

Old Man with a Gold Chain (1631)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Old Man with a Gold Chain 1631 Oil on panel, 83.1 x 75.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This evocative character study is an early example of a type of subject that preoccupied the great Dutch master…

Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume (1635)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume 1635 Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 97.5 cm National Gallery, London Saskia van Uylenburgh, the daughter of a burgomaster of Leeuwarden in Friesland, was 23 years old and had been married to…

Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels (1654-1656)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels probably 1654–1656 Oil on canvas, 101.9 x 83.7 cm National Gallery, London Something doesn’t quite add up about this mysterious portrait. The sitter – Rembrandt did not identify her – has an almost regal…

A Woman bathing in a Stream (1654)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Woman bathing in a Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels?) 1654 Oil on oak, 61.8 x 47 cm National Gallery, London Rembrandt’s painting, unique for him in its tender intimacy, shows a young woman almost up to her knees in…