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Exposición del cuerpo de San Buenaventura (c.1629)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Exposición del cuerpo de San Buenaventura (Exhibition of the Body of Saint Bonaventure) c.1629 Oil on canvas, 245 x 220 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted for the church of the San Buenaventura college in Seville, around 1629;…

Blonde à la rose (1915-1917)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Blonde à la rose (Blonde Girl with a Rose) c.1915–1917 Oil on canvas, 64 x 54 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Renoir painted this portrait of Andrée-Madeleine Heuschling towards the end of his life. She was then aged just…

La Baigneuse de Valpinçon (1808)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La baigneuse, dite Baigneuse de Valpinçon (The Bather, known as The Valpinçon Bather) 1808 Oil on canvas, 146 x 97.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Body of a woman naked from behind seated on the edge of…

Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough (c.1778)

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough c.1778 Oil on canvas, 76.6 x 63.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This intimate portrait may have been painted to celebrate the 50th birthday of Thomas Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret (around 1728-1798). He portrayed her…

Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement (1834)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement (Women of Algiers in their Apartment) 1834 Oil on canvas, 180 × 229 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Femmes d’Alger dans leur intérieur 1849 Musée Fabre, Montpellier     Copies: Fantin-Latour,…