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…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Gesù bambino benedicente (The Infant Savior) c.1460 Tempera on canvas, 70.2 x 34.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Nearly filling this vertical painting, a young, light-skinned child stands with a delicate scepter tucked into one elbow as…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Aeneas and the Sibyl c.1670 Etching on laid paper, 20.2 × 15.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Madonna and Child (obverse) c.1496–1499 Oil on panel, 52.4 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dürer was born in Nuremberg and received a typical medieval training from his goldsmith father and from the Nuremberg painter Michael…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Dos mujeres en la ventana (Two Women at a Window) c.1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 125.1 x 104.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Seville‘s most popular painter in the later 17th century was Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. While…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La costurera (The Needlewoman) c.1640–1650 Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Diego Velázquez ranks among the greatest masters of seventeenth-century Europe. By 1623, the twenty-four-year-old artist was established as court painter to…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Liseuse (Young Girl Reading) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.1 x 64.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the lap up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a goldenrod-yellow dress, sits reading a small book,…
Morisot, Edma (1839-1921) Berthe Morisot c.1865 Oil on canvas, 100 x 71 cm Private collection See also: • Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La lecture (Reading) 1873 Oil on fabric, 46 x 71.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Impressionists were mostly men with a few notable exceptions, including Berthe Morisot. While Morisot‘s work includes many of the hallmarks of…
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Soirée à la fenêtre (Evening at the Window) 1884 Etching and drypoint Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Alphonse Legros taught for nearly two decades as a professor of fine arts at the Slade School in London and was…