Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) La Jeune bonne (The Servant Girl) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 60.96 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Between 1915 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani executed many portraits in a style characterized by sparse settings and figures rendered…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) 1892 Oil on jute mounted on canvas, 73.02 x 92.39 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1891, after many years without commercial success in France, Paul Gauguin traveled to the…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’homme (Antonin Proust?) 1855 Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm National Gallery, Prague See also: • Proust, Antonin (1832-1905)
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) c.1588 Oil on canvas, 63 x 52 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Tintoretto painted this self-portrait for the German goldsmith and art dealer Hans Jakob König who, based in Venice, was building a collection of artists’…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Giovane donna con cappello a tricorno (Young Lady in a Tricorn Hat) c.1755–1760 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 49.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La Tragédie (The Tragedy) 1903 Oil on wood, 105.3 x 69 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Painted entirely in shades of blue, this vertical scene shows a woman, an elderly man, and a young child standing close…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’une dame (Portrait of a Lady) c.1879 Oil on wood, 15 x 11.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Ritratto virile (Portrait of a Man) c.1470 Tempera on hardboard transferred from canvas transferred from panel, 24.2 x 19.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Portrait d’un vieil homme (Portrait of an Old Man) s.d. Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 38.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington