Tag: father

Portrait du père de l’artiste (c.1905)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait du père de l’artiste (Portrait of the Artist’s Father) c.1905 Oil on canvas, 21.8 x 16 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Henri Rousseau is one of the most representative and interesting figures in…

Premier deuil (1888)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Premier deuil (The First Mourning) 1888 Oil on canvas, 203 x 250 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires During the last quarter of the 19th Century, every month of May would bring extensive accounts of…

Eugène Manet et sa fille dans le jardin de Bougival (1883)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Eugène Manet et sa fille dans le jardin de Bougival (Eugène Manet and His Daughter in the Garden at Bougival) 1883 Oil on canvas, 60 x 73.5 cm Private collection See also: • Bougival (France) | Eugène Manet (1833-1892) | Julie Manet (1878-1966)

Eugène Manet et sa fille à Bougival (1881)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Eugène Manet et sa fille à Bougival (Eugène Manet and His Daughter at Bougival) 1881 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris See also: • Bougival (France) | Eugène Manet (1833-1892) | Julie Manet (1878-1966)

Return of the Prodigal Son (c.1668)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Return of the Prodigal Son c.1668 Oil on canvas, 262 x 205 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg At one moment in his youth Rembrandt depicted himself in one of his many self-portraits as a reveller and spoilt child of…

Dedalo e Icaro (1777-1779)

Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Dedalo e Icaro (Daedalus and Icarus) 1777–1779 Marble, 182 x 95 cm Museo Correr, Venezia This famous sculpture, his first large one in marble, is the masterpiece of Antonio Canova‘s Venetian youth. It was created for the procurator…

Monsieur et Madame Auguste Manet (1860)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Monsieur et Madame Auguste Manet (Manet’s parents) 1860 Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Fournier, Eugénie Désirée, Mme Auguste Manet | Manet, Auguste

Léonard Renoir, le père de l’artiste (1869)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Léonard Renoir, le père de l’artiste (Léonard Renoir, the Artist’s Father) 1869 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 47 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Painted when the artist was twenty-eight, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s work represents his seventy year-old father,…