Tag: France

Angelo che tiene un filatterio (1500-1501)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Angelo che tiene un filatterio (Angel Holding a Phylactery) 1500–1501 Oil on poplar, 58 x 36 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting is a fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece, seriously damaged during an earthquake in 1789. Pala del beato Nicola da…

Le Tre Grazie (c.1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Le Tre Grazie (The Three Graces) c.1504–1505 Oil on panel, 17 x 17 cm Musée Condé, Chantilly This is one of the smallest paintings by the master and the only secular work from Raphael‘s Florentine period, before 1508, still under…

Busto femminile (c.1505-1507)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Busto femminile (Head and shoulders of a woman) c.1505–1507 Pen and brown ink, black chalk, 22.2 x 15.9 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Head and shoulders of a woman, in three-quarters profile facing left, with folded arms, possibly a study…

Erasmus writing (1528)

Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus writing 1528 Oil on wood, 43 x 33 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Copie de mémoire de l’Erasmus de Holbein s.d. National Gallery of Art, Washington     Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Erasme c.1899 Musée…

Pommes et oranges (c.1899)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Pommes et oranges (Apples and Oranges) c.1899 Oil on canvas, 74 x 93 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Though Cézanne painted still life compositions from the start of his career, it was only in later years that this genre…