Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Autoportrait à la pipe (Self-portrait with pipe) c.1895 Drypoint on paper, 114 x 77 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Half-length self-portrait of the artist, turned to the right with a pipe in his mouth. An inverted woman’s head is visible…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Portrait de Stéphane Mallarmé (Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé) 1891 and/or 1913–1919 Etching on paper, 18.3 x 14.3 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Portrait of the symbolist writer Stéphane Mallarmé. Behind the portrait, the head of a raven, taken from Manet‘s…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Testa di Maria, in Adorazione (Head of Mary, in an Adoration) 1518–1523 Chalk on paper, 32.1 x 23.9 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Mary Magdalene 1854 Oil on paper on panel, 31 × 35 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Head of a young woman. Together with SK-A-4173 forms a bust of Mary Magdalene. (RIJKS)
Donatello (1386-1466) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1445 Gilded bronze, marble, 87 x 51 x 12 cm; bronze tondo: 27 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The Madonna in Donatello’s bronze relief sits modestly on the ground, thus inviting the viewer to…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Testa d’uomo (Head of a Man) 1480s Pen and brush on paper, 26.9 x 18.7 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Ragazzo accovacciato (Crouching Boy) c.1530–1534 Marble, height: 54 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The Renaissance genius Michelangelo was an outstanding architect and poet, as well as the creator of the celebrated frescoes in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. But his…
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Extase poétique (Poetic Ecstasy) 1876 Drypoint on paper, 26.3 x 18.2 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) Testa di donna (Head of a woman, eyes lowered, slightly turned to the left) s.d. Metalpoint, pen and brush in black and gray ink heightened with white, on orange-red prepared paper, 26.7 x 22.4 cm Musée…
Nadar (1820-1910) Deux croquis de la tête de Théophile Gautier (Two sketches of the head of Théophile Gautier) s.d. Pencil Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Gautier, Théophile (1811-1872)