Tag: hand

Fille avec chien (1873)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Fille avec chien (Girl with Dog) 1873 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 45.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Painted a year before the first impressionist exhibition in Paris, this canvas has all the characteristics that would become associated with the…

Madame Cézanne au chapeau vert (1891-1892)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne au chapeau vert (Madame Cézanne with Green Hat) 1891–1892 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81.3 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Cézanne painted at least 29 portraits of his wife, Marie-Hortense Fiquet. Here she appears in a green upholstered…

Self-portrait with palette (1889)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-portrait with palette 1889 Oil on canvas 57.79 × 44.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington F 626, JH 1770 Vincent van Gogh painted 36 self-portraits. This was one of his last. Made at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole…

Le Baptême du Christ (1641-1642)

Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Le Baptême du Christ (The Baptism of Christ) 1641–1642 Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 121 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Although Nicolas Poussin‘s work exerted an enormous influence on the development of French seventeenth-century painting, the artist perfected…

Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace (1885)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace 1885 Oil on canvas, 44.1 x 38.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work was made in Nuenen in late spring 1885, just after Van Gogh completed The Potato Eaters…

Madonna col Bambino (c.1508)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1508 Oil on wood, 45.7 x 55.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dating to about 1508, this devotional painting is one of Titian’s earliest and shows the artist experimenting with ways to…

Baigneuse dans les bois (1895)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Baigneuse dans les bois (Bather in the Woods) 1895 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In summer 1893 Pissarro wrote his son Lucien that he was planning a series of canvases of nude…