Tag: lace

Il rispetto (c.1575)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: Il rispetto (Four Allegories of Love: Respect) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 186.1 x 194.3 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of love,…

Leisure Hours (1864)

Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Leisure Hours 1864 Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 118.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Anne and Marion Pender were the daughters of Sir John Pender, a wealthy textile merchant from Glasgow. The girls’ identical red velvet…

Hélène Fourment putting on a glove (c.1632)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Hélène Fourment putting on a glove c.1632 Oil on oak, 96.6 x 69 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich When compared with the elaborate and imposing full-length portrait of Helene Fourment in the collection (inv. no. 340), the present…

San Ambrosio (c.1796-1799)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) San Ambrosio (Saint Ambrose) c.1796–1799 Oil on canvas, 190 x 113 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This work belongs to a series depicting Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory, key figures of early Catholicism. Saint Ambrose (about…

Portrait of a Woman (1646)

Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Portrait of a Woman 1646 Oil on wood, 71.5 x 59.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Because of an inscription on the back, this painting was long considered a portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman, a prominent…

Portrait d’homme (1880)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) 1880 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Among Gustave Caillebotte’s most celebrated works are his views of modern Paris seen from balconies and terraces, a theme…