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La Mise au tombeau d’après Titien (1820)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La Mise au tombeau d’après Titien (The Entombment of Christ after Titian) 1820 Oil on canvas, 40 x 55.5 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione di Cristo c.1520 Musée du Louvre, Paris     Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Copie…

Deposizione nel sepolcro (1559)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione nel sepolcro (The Entombment) 1559 Oil on canvas, 136 x 174.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Titian represented the Gospel account of the burial of Christ (Matthew 27: 57-61; Mark 15: 44-47; Luke 23: 50-54; John 19: 38-42)…

Deposizione di Cristo (c.1520)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione di Cristo (The Entombment of Christ) c.1520 Oil on canvas, 148 x 212 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione nel sepolcro 1559 Museo del Prado, Madrid     Copies: Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Copie d’après Le Titien c.1864 Rhode Island…

Jeune berger au repos (1911)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune berger au repos (Young Shepherd in Repose/Portrait of Alexander Thurneyssen) 1911 Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 93.3 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

A Balcony in Seville (1873)

Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) A Balcony in Seville 1873 Oil on canvas, 101.7 × 82.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia After her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Mary Cassatt traveled to Europe in 1866 to complete…

Jeune fille au panier (1892)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune fille au panier (Young Girl with Basket) 1892 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Wearing a chiffon-trimmed hat and holding a straw basket, Berthe Morisot’s young sitter waits, poised to pick flowers…

Il poeta e la sua musa (c.1925)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Il poeta e la sua musa (The Poet and His Muse) c.1925 Oil and tempera on canvas, 91.1 x 73.7 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Though many of his paintings predate the start of Surrealism, Giorgio de…

La Crucifixion (1940)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La Crucifixion (The Crucifixion) 1940 Oil on canvas, 34 x 29.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia During the late 1930s Marc Chagall became increasingly aware of the plight of his fellow Jews in Europe and embarked on a…

Pietà (early 1570s)

El Greco (1541-1614) Pietà (Lamentation) Early 1570s Oil on panel, 28.9 × 20 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia El Greco was born in the Venetian territory of Crete and trained in Venice before moving to Rome. There he encountered the work…

Homme dans un café (1912)

Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Homme dans un café (Man in a Café) 1912 Oil on canvas, 127.6 x 88.3 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Juan Gris was the only artist included in the 1912 Salon de la Section d’Or who actually used…