Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) San Francisco de Borja y el moribundo impenitente (St Francis Borja at the Deathbed of an Impenitent) 1788 Oil on canvas, 350 x 300 cm Catedral de Valencia, Valencia See also: • Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Périssoires sur l’Yerres (Boating on the Yerres) 1877 Oil on canvas, 103.51 x 155.89 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Gustave Caillebotte associated with Monet and Degas as an art student and, beginning in the mid-1870s, became one of…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Skiff sur la rivière Yerres (Skiff on the Yerres River) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 65.7 x 81 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena In 1877 and 1878, Gustave Caillebotte made a number of pictures of swimmers, oarsmen and rowers…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Olympia 1863 Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 191 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris With Olympia, Manet reworked the traditional theme of the female nude, using a strong, uncompromising technique. Both the subject matter and its depiction explain the scandal…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Portrait of a man (from the Arnolfini family?) c.1438–1440 Oil on oak, 30 x 21.6 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin The man, whose identity is not indicated by the picture itself, apparently belonged to the middle class, as his…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Portrait of a Man (Léal Souvenir) 1432 Oil on oak, 33.3 x 18.9 cm National Gallery, London This small portrait is puzzling in many ways. We don‘t know who this man was or why he is holding…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Portrait of Giovanni (?) Arnolfini and his Wife 1434 Oil on oak, 82.2 x 60 cm National Gallery, London This must be one of the most famous paintings in the world, and one of the most intriguing.…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Rendez-vous dans la forêt (Rendezvous in the Forest) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Beyond a dense screen of stylized, dark brown tree trunks, bending branches, and sage and moss-green leaves, a…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Paysage exotique (The Equatorial Jungle) 1909 Oil on canvas, 140.6 x 129.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two animals with golden yellow, brown, and black fur peer out from behind dense jungle foliage in this stylized, vertical painting.…
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…