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Cosimo I de’ Medici in armatura (c.1545)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Cosimo I de’ Medici in armatura (Cosimo I de’ Medici in armour) c.1545 Oil on poplar panel, 86 x 66.8 x 3.5 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Bronzino was the leading painter in mid 16th-century…

Le pont à Argenteuil un jour gris (c.1876)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le pont à Argenteuil un jour gris (Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 61 x 80.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across a glimmering river toward docks, about a…

La Plage à Deauville (1864)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La Plage à Deauville (The Beach at Deauville) 1864 Oil on panel, 34.7 x 26 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland During the 1860s, Boudin executed many paintings and watercolors representing well-to-do tourists and vacationers enjoying seaside…

L’Hôpital-Camfrout, Bretagne (1870-1872)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) L’Hôpital-Camfrout, Bretagne (L’Hôpital-Camfrout, Brittany) c.1870–1872 Oil on wood, 20.3 x 39.4 cm National Gallery, London Boudin was born and brought up on the Normandy coast, retaining a lifelong affection for the area, which he painted throughout his career.…

Le Port de Bruxelles (1871)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le Port de Bruxelles (Brussels Harbour) 1871 Oil on canvas, 42 x 65 cm National Gallery, London During the Franco-Prussian War in the winter of 1870–71, Boudin left Paris to avoid the fighting. But unlike his friend Monet,…

Naiade (1819-1824)

Canova, Antonio & studio (1757-1822) Naiade (Reclining Naiad) 1819–1824 Carrara marble, 88.9 × 190.5 × 82.6 cm, 1160.3 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is a variant of the Reclining Venus with Cupid, now in Buckingham Palace, which was…

Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian (1888-1900)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian c.1888 (?)-1900 Oil on canvas, 191.5 x 89.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Ethel Philip, Whistler‘s sister-in-law and a favorite subject of the artist, whose likeness appears in…