Magritte, René (1898-1967) La condition humaine (The Human Condition) 1945 Watercolor, crayon over graphite, ink and gouache, 42.20 x 32.20 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland © C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York During World War II, when…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La condition humaine (The Human Condition) 1935 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Private collection
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La condition humaine (The Human Condition) 1933 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 x 1.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two of Magritte‘s favored themes were the “window painting” and the “painting within a painting.” The Human Condition…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot 1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 151.4 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable painter James Tissot was Degas’s friend and mentor in the 1860s and early 1870s. Posed in a studio, top hat…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) 1876 Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 57.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In the first flush of major success as an artist, Renoir depicts himself in front of an easel. By 1876, he had participated in the…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Las Meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV (Las meninas or The Family of Philip IV) 1656 Oil on canvas, 320.5 x 281.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is one of Velázquez‘s largest paintings and among…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Atelier du peintre (The Painter’s Studio) 1854–1855 Oil on canvas, 361 x 598 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris The enormous Studio is without doubt Courbet‘s most mysterious composition. However, he provides several clues to its interpretation: “It’s the whole world…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Autoportrait, Corot à son chevalet (Self Portrait, Sitting next to an Easel) 1825 Paper mounted on canvas, 32.5 × 24.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Autoportrait à l’âge de 24 ans (Self-portrait at age 24) 1804 Oil on canvas, 77 x 63 cm Musée Condé, Chantilly An early work, painted in 1804, was exhibited in its initial state at the Salon…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Autorretrato ante su caballete (Self-portrait at his easel) c.1785 Oil on canvas, 40 x 27 cm Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid The execution of this canvas coincides with a decisive stage in Goya‘s life in Madrid. In…