Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1669 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 60.2 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague No other seventeenth-century Dutch artist portrayed himself as often or in as many different ways as Rembrandt. In every phase of his career, he drew, etched and painted…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 x 50.2 cm Private collection Compare: Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita 1890 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita c.1890 Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • La…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te vaa (Canoe; Tahitian Family) 1896 Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 131.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Gauguin moved to Tahiti (Polynesia) in 1891, seeking to find the simplicity lacking in the “civilised” life of Parisian society. Here he…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te Rerioa (The Dream) 1897 Oil on canvas, 95.1 x 130.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Paul Gauguin painted this striking work a few years after settling in Tahiti, a French colony in the southern Pacific, and only…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme laçant sa chaussure (Woman Tying her Shoe) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 56.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This is one of the final paintings Pierre-Auguste Renoir made before his death the following year. Having become…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Imago Pietatis (Christ as Man of Sorrows flanked by Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint John the Evangelist) 1420–1429 Tempera on panel, 21 x 50 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This panel is part of a set of three…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Young Girl with Cherry Blossom c.1867–1872 Oil on canvas, 139.3 x 73.3 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This canvas is the central section of a larger decorative work commissioned by the Liverpool shipping magnate Frederick Leyland.…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Madame Jean Renoir (Catherine Hessling) c.1923 Oil on canvas, 90.4 x 75.2 cm National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo This painting depicts the actress Catherine Hessling, wife of the film director Jean Renoir. Catherine Hessling was her stage name,…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Eugène Manet à l’Ile de Wight (Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight) 1875 Oil on canvas, 38 × 46 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris On December 22, 1874, Berthe Morisot married Eugène Manet at the Church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Portrait du marchand Léopold Zborowski (Portrait of the merchant Leopold Zborowski) c.1923–1924 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 37.1 cm Private collection See also: • Léopold Zborowski (1889-1932)