Scholderer, Otto (1834-1902) Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (Porträt der Frau des Künstlers) probably 1872–1873 Oil on canvas, 31.6 × 40 cm National Gallery, London Scholderer made several portraits of Luise Steurwaldt, whom he married in London on 11 February 1872. Here…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Cirque bleu (The Blue Circus) 1950 Oil on canvas, 34.9 × 26.7 cm Tate Britain, London
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Portrait of Theodore Duret (Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black) 1883 Oil on canvas, 193.4 x 90.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Theodore Duret (1838–1927), heir to a firm of Cognac dealers, was a…
Gonzalès, Eva (1849-1883) Femme à l’éventail (Lady with a Fan) c.1869–1870 Pastel on paper affixed to board, 37.47 x 45.4 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Rêveuse (The Dreamer) 1712–1714 Oil on panel, 23.2 × 17 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The traditional title of this small painting, The Dreamer, derives from an engraving made after it, which was intended for sale to…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Family Group in a Landscape 1645–1648 Oil on canvas, 202 x 285 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Frans Hals is widely considered the most brilliant exponent of Dutch portraiture, a genre that enjoyed immense popularity in the seventeenth century.…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La dama del abanico (The Lady with the Fan) c.1640 Oil on canvas, 95 x 70 cm Wallace Collection, London
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Isabella Brant 1621 Oil on canvas, 153 x 120 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Isabella Brant was the first wife of the Antwerp master Peter Paul Rubens, whom she married shortly after his return from Italy…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: Il rispetto (Four Allegories of Love: Respect) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 186.1 x 194.3 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of love,…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’Odalisque à l’esclave (Odalisque with a Slave) 1842 Oil on canvas, 76 x 105 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore This is a replica of the 1839 painting in the Fogg Museum, Cambridge. The landscape in the background was…