Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) L’enlèvement de Psyché (The Abduction of Psyche) 1895 Oil on canvas, 209 x 120 cm Private collection See also: • Apuleius (c.124-c.170): Psyche et Cupido (Latin)
L’enlèvement de Psyché (1895)
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Miss Lala au Cirque Fernando (1879)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Miss Lala au Cirque Fernando (Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Pastel on paper, 61 × 47.6 cm Tate Britain, London This is one of a sequence of pastels and drawings, many of which were executed on the…
Miss La La au Cirque Fernando (1879)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Miss La La au Cirque Fernando (Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando) 1879 Oil on canvas, 117.2 × 77.5 cm National Gallery, London The Cirque Fernando was built in 1875 near the Place Pigalle in Paris, close…
The Shadow of Death (1870-1873)
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Shadow of Death 1870–1873 Oil on canvas, 214.2 x 168.2 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester The picture shows a carpenter’s workshop. A youthful Christ, depicted as muscular and tanned, stands facing the front and stretching, with…
The Shadow of Death (1873-1874)
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Shadow of Death 1873–1874 Oil on panel, 104.5 x 82 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This minutely detailed painting depicts the young Jesus stretching after his day’s labor in his father’s carpentry shop. His mother,…
Femme nue enfilant des bas (s.d.)
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Femme nue enfilant des bas (Female Nude Putting on Stockings) s.d. Pastel, 39 x 31.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Caïn (1880)
Cormon, Fernand (1845-1924) Caïn 1880 Oil on canvas, 400 x 700 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris This painting illustrates the miserable destiny of Cain, the elder son of Adam and Eve, who after the murder of his younger brother Abel was condemned…
Baigneuses à la vache rouge (1887)
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Baigneuses à la vache rouge (Bathers with a red cow) 1887 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Fragment cut from a large composition, probably painted in 1889, the side parts of which are in…
Le polisseur de marbre (1882-1887)
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Le polisseur de marbre (The Marble Polisher) 1882–1887 Oil on canvas, 65.5 × 81.3 × 1.9 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Toulouse-Lautrec probably painted this work while studying in the Parisian atelier of the popular painter…
Venus and Cupid (c.1915)
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Venus and Cupid c.1915 Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 53.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton