Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) The Wedding Procession 1623 Oil on panel, 71.5 x 122 cm Petit Palais, Paris A long wedding procession makes its way along the main road of a village, from the centre of the parish, shown on…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Fille à la mandoline (Girl with Mandolin) 1860–1865 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 40.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was nearly 70 years old and at the height of his considerable fame as a…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Woman c.1648 Oil on canvas, 108 x 80 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Dated around 1648 and perhaps, according to Grimm, a work by Jan Hals, in comparison with the latter’s Portrait of a Lady,…
Bellini, Gentile (c.1429-1507) Caterina Cornaro, regina di Cipro (Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus) c.1500 Oil on wood, 63.2 × 49.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The heroine of Donizetti’s opera, Caterina Cornaro was not born to the crown. The Venetian patrician…
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) A Man c.1435 Oil with egg tempera on oak, 40.7 x 28.1 cm National Gallery, London This striking portrait of a man in a red hat forms a pair with Campin’s A Woman – the sitters were clearly husband…
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) A Woman c.1435 Oil with egg tempera on oak, 40.6 x 28.1 cm National Gallery, London This striking portrait of a woman forms a pair with Campin’s portrait A Man: the sitters were clearly married. We don’t know…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Woman) c.1514 Oil on panel, 73 x 56 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This half-length portrait of an anonymous woman is traditionally though to be of the painter’s wife, Lucrecia del Fede,…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di gentildonna ispirata a Lucrezia (Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia) c.1530–1533 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 110.6 cm National Gallery, London A sumptuously dressed young woman stands between the back of an armchair and a table.…