Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme au chapeau vert (Young woman with green hat) s.d. Pastel on paper, 56.5 x 43.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In this undated pastel by Pierre Renoir, a woman wearing a large…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Ciego popular en Cádiz (Popular blind man in Cadiz) s.d. Watercolor on paper, 26.5 x 17.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Costumbrista scene whose main interest lies in the fact that it is a…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Lavanderas en el bajo de Belgrano (Washerwomen in Belgrano) 1865 Oil on canvas, 102 x 126.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The first institutional destination of Lavanderas en el Bajo de Belgrano was the…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) El rodeo (The rodeo) 1861 Oil on canvas, 76 x 166 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In a note probably written by Miguel Cané Sr., La Tribuna commented on the painting A Stop in…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Un alto en el campo (A stop on the field) 1861 Oil on canvas, 75.5 x 166.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The newspaper La Tribuna published commentaries most likely by Miguel Cané (Senior)…
Cárcova, Ernesto de la (1866-1927) Sin pan y sin trabajo (Without Bread and Without Work) 1894 Oil on canvas, 125.5 x 216 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Sin pan y sin trabajo (Without Bread and Without Work)…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Arlequin danse (Harlequin dancing) c.1890 Pastel on paper on cardboard, 52 x 63 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In the mid-1880s, Edgar Degas produced a set of seven pastels and a sculpture dedicated to…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Séduction (Seduction, The Proposal) 1872 Oil on canvas, 163.5 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The motif of a young man at a window, wooing a woman at her spinning wheel, and the vaguely…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus of Rotterdam c.1532 Oil on linden panel, 17.6 x 14 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hans Holbein the Younger was one of the most celebrated portraitists of the sixteenth century. At an…