Tag: France

Aux courses en province (1869)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…

Chez la modiste (1881)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1881 Pastel on paper, 69.2 x 69.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a…

La classe de danse (1874)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1874 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work and its variant in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to…

La classe de danse (1873-1876)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1873–1876 Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 75 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Degas regularly went to the Paris opera house, not only as a member of the audience, but as a visitor…

Madonna di Loreto (c.1509-1512)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna di Loreto, Madonna del Velo (Madonna of Loreto, Madonna of the Veil) c.1509–1512 Oil on poplar panel, 120 x 90 cm Musée Condé, Chantilly This painting was only identified as an original by Raphael in 1976; the Duke of…

Ritratto di Baldassarre Castiglione (1514-1515)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Baldassarre Castiglione (Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione) 1514–1515 Oil on canvas, 82 x 67 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione 1630 Courtauld Institute of Art, London     See also: • Castiglione, Baldassarre (1478-1529)

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…