Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) San Bartolomeo (Saint Bartholomew) c.1497 Tempera on wood panel, 59.6 x 51 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Flayed and crucified for spreading Christ’s word through Armenia and India, the apostle Bartholomew was represented horrifically, holding his own skin,…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Tête d’homme et nu assis (Head of a Man and Seated Nude) 1964 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Produced late in Picasso’s career, many years after the Cubist period that defined…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Coventry Kersey Deighton Patmore 1894 Oil on canvas, 91.4 × 61 cm National Portrait Gallery, London Patmore was urged to sit for Sargent in the summer of 1894 by his friend, and fellow author, Edmund Gosse. The…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Busto di giovane (Bust of a Youth and Caricature Head of an Old Man, Both in Left Profile) c.1530 Black chalk on tan laid paper, 18.3 × 12.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton During the 1520s and early…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Zuffa di dei marini (Battle of the Sea Gods) c.1470–1475 Engraving, 30.5 x 43.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This engraving by Mantegna, court painter to the Gonzaga family in Mantua, manifests the revival of classical antiquity…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Les femmes au perroquet (Women with a Parrot) 1952 Lithograph printed in 8 (?) colors on Arches paper, 41.2 x 59.6 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Statue dite “Bacchus Richelieu” (The so-called “Bacchus Richelieu”) 1793 Charcoal with stumping slightly accented with black chalk, 70 × 53 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Ingres‘s early academic training in Toulouse is reflected in this…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nu dans un paysage (Nude in a Landscape) c.1887 Oil on canvas, 21 x 31.7 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Gitan avec une cigarette (Gypsy with a Cigarette) s.d. Oil on canvas, 92 x 73.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This painting, found in Manet’s studio after his death, was never exhibited, and no indication of its…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Satyre et nymphe (Satyr and Nymph) 1817 Black chalk with brown wash and white gouache, 22.2 x 18.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton