Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…
El Greco (1541-1614) Attributed El Apóstol San Andrés (Apostle Saint Andrew) c.1610–1614 Oil on canvas, 74.9 x 58.4 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Tentazioni di sant’Antonio Abate (Christ appearing to Saint Anthony Abbot during his Temptation) c.1598 Oil on copper, 49.5 x 34.4 cm National Gallery, London A bearded man in a hair robe is being violently threatened by a horde…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune berger au repos (Young Shepherd in Repose/Portrait of Alexander Thurneyssen) 1911 Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 93.3 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) A Balcony in Seville 1873 Oil on canvas, 101.7 × 82.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia After her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Mary Cassatt traveled to Europe in 1866 to complete…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune fille au panier (Young Girl with Basket) 1892 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Wearing a chiffon-trimmed hat and holding a straw basket, Berthe Morisot’s young sitter waits, poised to pick flowers…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Il poeta e la sua musa (The Poet and His Muse) c.1925 Oil and tempera on canvas, 91.1 x 73.7 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Though many of his paintings predate the start of Surrealism, Giorgio de…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Blonde à la rose (Blonde Girl with a Rose) c.1915–1917 Oil on canvas, 64 x 54 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Renoir painted this portrait of Andrée-Madeleine Heuschling towards the end of his life. She was then aged just…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough c.1778 Oil on canvas, 76.6 x 63.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This intimate portrait may have been painted to celebrate the 50th birthday of Thomas Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret (around 1728-1798). He portrayed her…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’Espérance (Hope) 1842 Oil on canvas, 116.5 × 117 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition: half-length woman, arms and hands open, white sleeveless tunic under a green drape, face in profile turned to the right. (Louvre)…