Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Garçon à la veste bleue (The Boy) 1919 Oil on canvas, 92.1 × 60.3 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Utilizing the expressive potential of the human face and figure in a highly individual way, Modigliani painted the colorful…
La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) Les Larmes de saint Pierre (The Tears of Saint Peter / Saint Peter Repentant) 1645 Oil on canvas, 114 x 95 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland During Jesus’s arrest on the night of the Last Supper,…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Portrait of a Judge c.1620 Oil on canvas, 117 x 98 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris With its two influences—that of the Antwerp tradition complemented by the Venetian influence—this splendid portrait of a magistrate could only have been executed…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Le Sommeil de Vénus (Sleeping Venus) 1738 Oil on canvas, 96 x 143 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris Companion: Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Toilette de Vénus 1738 Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris The Toilette of Venus and Sleeping Venus Initially intended to…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les débuts du modèle (The New model) c.1770 Oil on canvas, 50 x 63 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris Baron Portalis, one of the artist’s greatest connoisseurs, underlined the artist’s brilliant execution: ‘Imagine everything of the fairest, pinkest, and lightest…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Charles I and his Son in the Studio of Van Dyck 1849 Oil on wood, 15.9 x 11.4 cm Tate Britain, London See also: • Charles I (England) | Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Olga Picasso 1923 Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm Private collection See also: • Khokhlova, Olga (1891-1955)
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Une couturière (A Seamstress) 1892 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 53.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis The subject of a woman sewing comes directly from Edouard Vuillard‘s own experience in his mother’s dressmaking shop where, as a…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te Rerioa (The Dream) 1897 Oil on canvas, 95.1 x 130.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Paul Gauguin painted this striking work a few years after settling in Tahiti, a French colony in the southern Pacific, and only…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Intérieur avec un écran (Interior with a Screen) c.1909–1910 Oil on paper, laid on cardboard and panel, 35.8 x 23.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Like many of Édouard Vuillard’s paintings, this intimate work is painted on paper,…