Tag: interior

L’Odalisque à l’esclave (1842)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’Odalisque à l’esclave (Odalisque with a Slave) 1842 Oil on canvas, 76 x 105 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore This is a replica of the 1839 painting in the Fogg Museum, Cambridge. The landscape in the background was…

L’Odalisque à l’esclave (1839-1840)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’Odalisque à l’esclave (Odalisque with a Slave) 1839–1840 Oil on canvas, 72.1 x 100.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’Odalisque à l’esclave 1842 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore    

Raphaël et la Fornarina (1814)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Raphaël et la Fornarina (Raphael and the Fornarina) 1814 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 53.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Compare: Raffaello (1483-1520) La Fornarina c.1520 Palazzo Barberini, Roma     Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna della Seggiola 1513–1514 Galleria Palatina, Firenze…

La grande odalisque (1814)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Une odalisque, dite La grande odalisque (An Odalisque, called The Great Odalisque) 1814 Oil on canvas, 91 x 162 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Naked woman, 3/4 face surrounded by a turban tied at the nape…

Le bain turc (1862)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Le bain turc (Turkish bath) 1862 Oil on canvas, 108 × 110 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition. Naked bathing women from the back, from the front, in profile, in three/quarter view, sitting, standing, dancing……

La Fenêtre (1916)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Fenêtre (The Window) 1916 Oil on canvas, 146.1 × 116.8 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

Mosquito Nets (1908)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Mosquito Nets 1908 Oil on canvas, 57.2 × 71.8 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Mosquito Nets is a beautiful example of Sargent’s ability to translate a momentary impression into a masterful composition. The picture represents the…

Autoportrait (c.1893)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Autoportrait (Self-portrait) c.1893 Oil on canvas, 46 × 38.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Gauguin exemplified the restless artistic spirit. In this image, painted during a brief return to Paris from Tahiti in 1893, he plays the…

Ester e Assuero (1620s)

Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Ester e Assuero (Esther before Ahasuerus) 1620s Oil on canvas, 208.3 × 273.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The most famous woman painter of the seventeenth century, Gentileschi worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. This…