Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Daniel in the Lions’ Den c.1614–1616 Oil on canvas, 224.2 x 330.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) The Virgin and Child with a Monkey c.1498 Engraving, 19.05 x 12.07 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Albrecht Dürer’s prints are characterized by nearly ethereal transitions from dark to light. From the fineness of the monkey’s wiry fur…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Self Portrait of the Artist as a Deaf Man c.1775 Oil on canvas, 74.93 x 60.96 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Compare: Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Self-Portrait as a Deaf Man c.1775 Tate Britain, London
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Musique (Music) 1939 Oil on canvas, 115.25 x 115.25 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Music was a constant part of Henri Matisse’s life and an endless source of enjoyment and inspiration. He played the violin daily,…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life) 1925 Oil on canvas, 100.01 x 80.01 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Marc Chagall was born into a Hasidic Jewish family in an area of the Russian Empire that is now Belarus.…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) La Jeune bonne (The Servant Girl) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 60.96 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Between 1915 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani executed many portraits in a style characterized by sparse settings and figures rendered…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Une laveuse au Quai d’Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d’Anjou) c.1860 Oil on wood, 28.57 x 19.68 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Through light and shadow, Honoré Daumier empathetically responded to the effects of increasing industrialization in…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Rue de Meknès (Street in Meknes) 1832 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 64.13 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo See also: • Meknes (Morocco)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) 1892 Oil on jute mounted on canvas, 73.02 x 92.39 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1891, after many years without commercial success in France, Paul Gauguin traveled to the…