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…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Bia de’ Medici (Portrait of Bia de’ Medici) c.1542 Oil on panel, 64 x 48 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Medici, Bia de’ (c.1537-1542)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter c.1872 Oil on canvas, 74.9 x 53.3 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix 1805–1808 Marble, 160 x 92 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma See also: • Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese (1780-1825)
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…