Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les Cousins du peintre (Double Portrait, The Cousins of the Painter) c.1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 58 x 75 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This portrait of Edgar Degas’s Italian cousins, Camilla and Elena Montejasi-Cicerale, is one of several that he…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Venere e Cupido (Venus and Cupid) 1520s Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 111.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In his inimitable fashion, in this unique masterpiece Lorenzo Lotto takes one of the most popular subjects of Venetian…
Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954) Frida y Diego Rivera (Frieda and Diego Rivera) 1931 Oil on canvas, 100.01 x 78.74 cm Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco See also: • Rivera, Diego (1886-1957)
Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Portrait de Josette Gris (Portrait of Josette Gris) 1917 Pencil on paper, 39.2 x 28.3 cm Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv See also: • Gris, Josette (1894-1983)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-portrait in Oriental Costume 1631 Oil on panel, 63 x 56 cm Petit Palais, Paris Rembrandt has left us more self-portraits than any other artist in the world, around eighty (around forty paintings, nearly thirty engravings and seven drawings), not…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Venere disarma Cupido (Venus Disarming Cupid) 1550–1555 Oil on canvas, 158.8 x 138.4 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Acteurs de la Comedie-Francaise (Actors of the Comédie-Française) 1711–1712 Oil on panel, 20 × 25 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Watteau was very fond of the play Les trois cousines (The Three Cousins) by Florent Carton, known as Dancourt,…
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) Augustine Roulin 1888 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’, Winterthur Compare: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Madame Roulin 1888 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis See also: • Arles (France) | Roulin, Augustine (1851-1930)
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Fille à la mandoline (Girl with Mandolin) 1860–1865 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 40.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was nearly 70 years old and at the height of his considerable fame as a…