Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme à l’éventail (Woman with Fan) 1886 Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 45.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia This painting exemplifies the drastic shift in Renoir‘s style during the mid-1880s. After several years of working in an impressionist mode…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Portrait de Jeanne Hébuterne (Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne) 1918 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 64.8 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Jeanne Hébuterne, Modigliani‘s last mistress, is recognizable by her auburn hair, blank blue eyes, and swanlike neck. Painted the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Avant le bain (Before the Bath) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 82 x 66.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia When Renoir first exhibited this painting publicly, at an 1875 auction in Paris, audiences were shocked by its naturalism. Rather than…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Frances, Countess of Dartmouth 1756 Oil on canvas, 127 x 102 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The present portrait of Frances, Countess of Dartmouth was acquired for the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1977 from the UK art market. As with…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Retrato de Fernando VII (Portrait of Ferdinand VII) c.1814–1815 Oil on canvas, 84 x 63.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This portrait of Ferdinand VII entered the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1935 and appeared in its catalogues from 1937.…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Sarah Buxton c.1776–1777 Oil on canvas, 110 x 87 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with Joshua Reynolds Thomas Gainsborough was one of the great 18th-century British portraitists. A certain rivalry existed between the two painters, which…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Portrait d’une jeune dame (Portrait of a Young Lady) c.1770–1772 Oil on canvas, 63 x 53 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection It has always been felt that the age of Louis XV finds its most characteristic…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Portrait of a Man 1640 Oil on panel, 67.1 x 55.1 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Son of a cloth merchant, Govert Flinck began his training in the studio of the painter and preacher Lambert Jacobsz. in Leeuwarden, where…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of the Emperor Charles V 1533 Oil on panel, 51.2 x 36 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the most important artists of the German Renaissance together with Albrecht Dürer.…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Nu (Nude) 1913 Gouache on paper, 34 x 24 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Marc Chagall first lived in Paris from 1911 to 1914 and it was there that he painted the present Nude in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. The…