Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Juliette Courbet à l’âge de dix ans (Juliette Courbet at the age of ten years) c.1841 Oil on canvas, 24.5 x 19 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Simply opening the Grand Palais reference catalog…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) La toilette de Vénus 1873 Oil on canvas, 170 x 130 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Premier deuil (The First Mourning) 1888 Oil on canvas, 203 x 250 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires During the last quarter of the 19th Century, every month of May would bring extensive accounts of…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Mignon 1869 Oil on canvas, 100.4 x 81.3 cm Private collection
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Séduction (Seduction, The Proposal) 1872 Oil on canvas, 163.5 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The motif of a young man at a window, wooing a woman at her spinning wheel, and the vaguely…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Jeune mère contemplant son enfant (Young Mother Gazing at Her Child) 1871 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 95.2 cm Private collection
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le lever (Young Mother Gazing at Her Child) 1871 Oil on canvas, 142.2 x 102.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This doting mother in picturesque dress and her angelic offspring are two of many such…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus of Rotterdam c.1532 Oil on linden panel, 17.6 x 14 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hans Holbein the Younger was one of the most celebrated portraitists of the sixteenth century. At an…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery 1532–1535 Oil and gold on parchment, laid down on linden, diameter 9.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Holbein painted this small roundel about 1532–35, after his…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1550s Oil on canvas, 112.7 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of Tintoretto’s finest formal portraits, this painting depicts an unknown sitter now believed to be a…