Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Charpentier et ses enfants (Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children) 1878 Oil on canvas, 153.7 x 190.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this commissioned portrait, as Marcel Proust observed, Renoir gave expression to…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte avec pêches et raisins (Still Life with Peaches and Grapes) 1881 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir spent part of the summer of 1881 at the country home…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Belshazzar’s Feast c.1636–1638 Oil on canvas, 167.6 x 209.2 cm National Gallery, London Belshazzar’s Feast was painted somewhere between 1636 and 1638, when Rembrandt was about 30 years old. He had to make his way in Amsterdam, a…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Cleopatra’s Banquet c.1675–1680 Oil on canvas, 74 x 95.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Cleopatra made a bet with Mark Antony on who could give the most lavish banquet. She won by dissolving a priceless pearl in vinegar and…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Le peintre et sa famille (The Painter and his Family) c.1939 Oil on canvas, 176.5 x 123.8 cm Tate Britain, London This symbolic painting represents the life of an artist. It is an invented scene. Despite usually working…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Baccanale degli Andrii (Bacchanal of the Andrians) 1523–1526 Oil on canvas, 175 x 193 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Having delivered the Bacchus and Ariadne in 1523 Titian then painted The Andrians, also inspired by Philostratus. The scene is set…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna dell’Eucarestia (Virgin and Child with an Angel) 1470–1474 Tempera on panel, 85 x 64.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston A vast number of paintings of the Virgin and Child were produced in Florence in the late 1400s…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Bacco (Bacchus) 1496–1497 Marble, h. 207 cm Museo del Bargello, Firenze
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco (The Drunkards, or The Triumph of Bacchus) 1628–1629 Oil on canvas, 165 x 225 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Documentation of payment received by Velázquez in July 1629 for an…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Fruits à l’étalage (Fruit displayed on a stand) c.1881–1882 Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 100.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Caillebotte delighted in unusual vantage points and compositions. This close-up view of fruit stacked on a market…