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Venus Discordia (1873)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Venus Discordia 1873 Oil on canvas, 128.2 x 209.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Born in Birmingham, but of Welsh extraction, Burne-Jones was much admired by early twentieth-century Welsh critics. A friend of William Morris and an associate…

Victor Hugo sur son lit de mort (1885)

Nadar (1820-1910) Victor Hugo sur son lit de mort (Victor Hugo on His Deathbed) 1885 Albumen print, 19.6 x 23.8 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Compare: Nadar (1820-1910) Victor Hugo sur son lit de mort 1885 Getty Center, Los Angeles     See…

The Crowning of Saint Catherine (1631 or 1633)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Crowning of Saint Catherine 1631 or 1633 Oil on canvas, 265.7 × 214.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Rubens painted this magnificent painting as an altarpiece for the Church of the Augustinians in Mechelen (Malines),…

Adam and Eve (1640s)

Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man) 1640s Oil on canvas, 184.5 × 221 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Compare: Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve 1642 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo    

Les Danseuses (c.1899)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les Danseuses (The Dancers) c.1899 Pastel on paper, 62.2 x 64.8 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The incandescent, expressive colors of Edgar Degas’s pastel seem to vibrate off the paper. Applied in layered webs of rhythmic strokes,…

La Jardinière verte (1882)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Jardinière verte (The Green Jardinière) 1882 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 67.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Like his landscape Road at Wargemont (also in the Museum’s collection), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Green Jardinière features jewel-like tones and…

La Laveuse (1917)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Laveuse (Washerwoman) 1917 Bronze, 122.6 x 54.6 x 127 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Though he had first experimented with sculpture in 1907–08, Pierre-Auguste Renoir returned to it more seriously in 1913 at the urging of…

La Belle Iseult (1858)

Morris, William (1834-1896) La Belle Iseult 1858 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married…

Ariadne (1863-1864)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Ariadne 1863–1864 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on paper, 123.8 x 54 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington