Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of a Man 1521 Oil on panel, 50 x 36 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This portrait is one of Dürer’s great creations. It offers a three-quarters view of an unidentified person. Dürer places him in front…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Poulets, gibier à plumes et lièvres (Chickens, Game Birds, and Hares) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 76 x 105 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Caillebotte balanced the notion of the wild with the orderly in this painting, as…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Bacchante sur une panthère (Bacchante on a Panther) 1855 Oil on fabric, 71.3 x 111.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair). These paintings are from a series…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Le Puma (The Puma) 1859 Oil on wood, 41.2 x 30.7 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap 1645 Oil on wood, 60.3 x 52.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Flinck studied as a pupil in Rembrandt’s studio and, according to one early biographer, had so internalized his…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Jeunes filles de Sparte (Young Women of Sparta) 1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 74.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Along with 42.196, this painting of a pale, contemplative young woman dressed in garments that conjure past times…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Doge Pietro Loredan 1567–1570 Oil on canvas, 109.5 × 93 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne See also: • Loredan, Pietro (1482-1570)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (F 527, JH 1657) 1889 Oil on canvas, 50 x 60.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This famous painting, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear by Vincent van Gogh, expresses his artistic power and…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-portrait wearing a hat and two chains c.1642–1643 Oil on panel, 72 x 54.8 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Rembrandt is considered one of the greatest masters in the history of painting, as well as a superb and prolific engraver.…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Retrato de Fernando VII (Portrait of Ferdinand VII) c.1814–1815 Oil on canvas, 84 x 63.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This portrait of Ferdinand VII entered the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1935 and appeared in its catalogues from 1937.…