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Magdalena penitente (c.1577)

El Greco (1541-1614) Magdalena penitente (Penitent Magdalene) c.1577 Oil on canvas, 108 x 101.3 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Compare: El Greco (1541-1614) Magdalena penitente c.1576–1577 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest    

Les Hasards heureux de l’escarpolette (c.1767-1768)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les hasards heureux de l’escarpolette (The Happy Chances of the Swing) c.1767–1768 Oil on canvas, 81 x 64.2 cm Wallace Collection, London Fragonard’s iconic painting is one of the most emblematic images of 18th-century French art. A young…

Magdalena penitente (c.1576-1577)

El Greco (1541-1614) Magdalena penitente (The Penitent Mary Magdalene) c.1576–1577 Oil on canvas, 156.5 × 121 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Compare: El Greco (1541-1614) Magdalena penitente c.1577 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester    

Étude des palmiers (1868)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Étude des palmiers (Study of Palm Trees) probably 1868 Oil on canvas, laid down on board, 26.7 × 32.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This study is thought to have been painted in 1868, during Gérôme‘s third…

Anacréon, Bacchus et l’Amour (1878)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Anacréon, Bacchus et l’Amour (Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid) modeled 1878 (cast c.1893) Bronze, 72.4 × 43.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 19th century, industrial approaches to production created a new middle-class market for small-scale…

Roses and sunflowers (1886)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Roses and sunflowers 1886 Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim Compare: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Sunflowers 1888 National Gallery, London