Gros, Antoine-Jean (1771-1835) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) c.1790 Oil on canvas, 27.3 × 21.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gros trained with Jacques Louis David, leader of the most prominent atelier in Paris during a tumultuous period marked by Revolution and Empire.…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’un homme (Portrait of a Man) 1860 Oil on canvas, 61.4 x 50.4 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Théodore Duret 1912 Oil on cardboard on wood, 95.2 x 74.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto a balding, bearded man with pale, peachy skin and wearing a three-piece suit, seated in a…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Vuillard au col blanc (Self-portrait with White Collar) 1888 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 31 cm Private collection This beautiful 1888 self-portrait of Edouard Vuillard is a prescient expression of the Nabi painter’s intimist talent that would…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Portrait de l’artiste Alphonse Legros (Portrait of the Artist Alphonse Legros) 1856 Oil on linen, 26.67 x 22.86 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Painted entirely en plein air during an outing in the French countryside, Fantin-Latour depicts…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Lecteur (The Reader) 1861 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 81.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Edouard Manet represented his elderly friend, the painter Joseph Gall, absorbed in reading a large book. The ledge in the…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Chaim Soutine 1918 Oil on canvas, 91.7 x 59.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Born in 1884 to an aristocratic family in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani settled in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris in 1906 and began…
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) L’Homme en bleu (Man in Blue) c.1921 Oil on canvas, 130.8 x 65.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Though conventional in format, this portrait of an unidentified man is uniquely Soutine‘s in its gestural brushwork and fiery colors. As in…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Gitano de Figueres (Gypsy from Figueres) 1923 Oil and gouache on cardboard, 104 x 75 cm Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid See also: • Figueras (España)
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Squelettes voulant se chauffer (Skeletons Wanting to Warm Themselves) 1889 Oil on canvas, 74.8 x 60 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth James Ensor was one of the most original painters of the late nineteenth century. Populated with…