Tag: figure

Le Lièvre, d’après A. de Balleroy (1865)

Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Le Lièvre, d’après A. de Balleroy (The Hare, after A. de Balleroy) 1865 Softground and drypoint on paper, 18 x 25.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Balleroy, Albert de (1828-1872)

The Large Plane Trees (1889)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy) 1889 Oil on fabric, 73.4 x 91.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Van Gogh sometimes created what he called “repetitions,” in which he painted the same subject and…

Three Figures: Pink and Grey (1868-1878)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Three Figures: Pink and Grey 1868–1878 Oil on canvas, 139.1 x 185.4 cm Tate Britain, London This picture derives from one of six oil sketches that Whistler produced in 1868 as part of a plan for…

Intérieur ensoleillé (c.1920)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Intérieur ensoleillé (Sunlit Interior) c.1920 Distemper on paper on canvas, 83.2 x 63.8 cm Tate Britain, London This picture appears in the Bernheim-Jeune records under the title used here. Jacques Salomon wrote (20 October 1969) that it represents…

Incoronazione di spine (1540-1543)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Incoronazione di spine (The Crowning with Thorns) 1540–1543 Oil on panel, 303 x 180 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted between 1540 and 1543 for the Confraternità di Santa Corona and placed in the funerary chapel of the brotherhood (decorated…

Christ Crowned with Thorns, after Titian (1802)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Christ Crowned with Thorns, after Titian 1802 Graphite on paper, 12.8 x 11.4 cm Tate Britain, London Titian’s picture was painted for the church of Sta Maria delle Grazie in Milan, 1540–2. For Turner’s remarks on it,…

Naked Man with Knife (c.1938-1940)

Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956) Naked Man with Knife c.1938–1940 Oil on canvas, 134.7 x 99 x 6.5 cm Tate Britain, London Pollock was beginning to find his own individual style when he made this work. The startlingly violent image of three interlocking…

The Apotheosis of James I (c.1628-1630)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Apotheosis of James I and Other Studies: Multiple Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling, Whitehall c.1628–1630 Oil on oak, 94.7 x 63 cm Tate Britain, London Rubens was the leading artist in Antwerp, and one of the…