Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’Antonin Proust (Portrait of Antonin Proust) 1881 Oil on canvas, 183 x 110.5 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Antonin Proust was a key figure in artistic life under the Third Republic. Born in Niort in 1832, he studied…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Antonin Proust 1880 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 95.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo This portrait was painted in a single sitting using unprepared canvas. Exhibited at the 1880 Paris Salon, it was praised by some for…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Autoritratto con un amico (Self-portrait with a friend) c.1518–1520 Oil on canvas, 99 x 83 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot 1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 151.4 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable painter James Tissot was Degas’s friend and mentor in the 1860s and early 1870s. Posed in a studio, top hat…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) George W. Vanderbilt 1897–1903 Oil on canvas, 208.6 x 91.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A close friend of Whistler, George Washington Vanderbilt II commissioned this full-length portrait in 1897 to hang in Biltmore House,…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol c.1803–1804 Oil on canvas, 119.7 x 79.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the knees up, a cleanshaven, young man with pale, peachy skin leans on his right elbow, to our left,…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Portrait de Gauguin (Portrait of Gauguin / Man in Red Beret) 1888 Oil on jute on panel, 38.2 cm x 33.8 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0546 Arles, December 1, 1888 Van Gogh painted his friend, the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Déjeuner des canotiers (Luncheon of the Boating Party) 1880–1881 Oil on canvas, canvas 130.2 x 175.6 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington Detail of Aline Charigot. Detail of Gustave Caillebotte. Detail of Ellen Andrée drinking in the center. Detail…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Frédéric Bazille peignant le héron (Frédéric Bazille painting the heron) 1867 Oil on canvas, 105 x 75.5 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Deposited by the Musée d’Orsay, 2006 (inv. D2006.3.5) Beyond being a simple portrait, this painting conceals the presence…