Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Portrait d’une femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1872–1875 Oil on canvas, 56 x 46.1 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Portrait d’une femme (1872-1875)
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Portrait de Madame Edma Pontillon (1871)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Portrait de Madame Edma Pontillon, née Edma Morisot, soeur de l’artiste (Portrait of Madame Edma Pontillon, née Edma Morisot, sister of the artist) 1871 Pastel on paper, 81.5 x 65.8 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Morisot, Edma (1839-1921)
Berthe Morisot (c.1865)
Morisot, Edma (1839-1921) Berthe Morisot c.1865 Oil on canvas, 100 x 71 cm Private collection See also: • Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895)
La lecture (1873)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La lecture (Reading) 1873 Oil on fabric, 46 x 71.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Impressionists were mostly men with a few notable exceptions, including Berthe Morisot. While Morisot‘s work includes many of the hallmarks of…
Portrait de femme (1917-1918)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1917–1918 Oil on canvas, 65 x 48.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno, Italy, Modigliani studied briefly in Florence and Venice before moving…
Deux femmes (c.1908)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Deux femmes (Two Women) c.1908 Bronze, 45.7 x 25.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Matisse based this sculpture on a photograph of two women embracing, but translated it into a more compact, three-dimensional composition by fusing their…
Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus (c.1670)
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus c.1670 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 113.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Calypso, reclining on her bed, looks at us with the same charming smile she used on Odysseus. The…
Terminus, the Device of Erasmus (c.1532)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Terminus, the Device of Erasmus c.1532 Oil on wood, 21.6 x 21.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466–1536), the celebrated Dutch humanist and scholar,…
Il sacrificio di Isacco (1750s)
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Il sacrificio di Isacco (The Sacrifice of Isaac) 1750s Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 75.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This series of paintings predominantly tells the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac, and each of…
Dans les Vagues (1889)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Dans les Vagues (In the Waves) 1889 Oil on fabric, 92.5 x 72.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gauguin likely painted this work of art during his time in a small coastal village called Pont-Aven where he…