Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan 1633 Oil on canvas, 125.7 x 101 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This animated portrait has a pendant showing the sitter’s husband rising from a chair (Taft Museum, Cincinnati).…
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) The Loge c.1878–1880 Oil on canvas, 79.8 x 63.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the knees up, two young women with pale, peachy skin wearing white gowns sit close together and almost fill this…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Pierre Henri Renoir 1870 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA See also: • Blanc, Blanche-Marie (1841-1910?)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Venere e il suonatore di liuto (Venus and the Lute Player) c.1565–1570 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le balcon (The Balcony) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 170 x 125 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Mademoiselle Claus 1868 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford See also: • Claus, Fanny | Guillemet, Antoine | Koelin-Leenhoff, Léon | Morisot, Berthe
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Condesa del Carpio, Marquesa de la Solana (The Countess del Carpio, Marquesa de la Solana) c.1794–1795 Oil on canvas, 181 x 122 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Born on May 23, 1757 in Bilbao, María Rita Barrenechea y…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Mariana Waldstein, novena Marquesa de Santa Cruz 1797–1799 Oil on canvas, 142 x 97 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Waldstein, Mariana (1763-1808)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le pont du HMS Calcutta, Portsmouth (Gallery of HMS Calcutta) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 91.8 cm Tate Britain, London See also: • Portsmouth (England)