Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Femmes en prière (Women in Prayer) 1888 Oil on canvas, 133.5 × 177 cm Tate Britain, London
Femmes en prière (1888)
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Répétition du service (c.1870)
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Répétition du service (Rehearsing the Service) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 91.4 × 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London The French realist painter Legros moved to London in 1863, and from then exhibited both at the Royal Academy and the Paris…
Mars and Venus, after Guercino (1802)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Mars and Venus, after Guercino 1802 Graphite on paper, 12.8 × 11.4 cm Tate Britain, London Compare: Guercino (1591-1666) Venere, Marte e Amore 1633 Galleria Estense, Modena See also: • Guercino (1591-1666)
Le Pierrot au livre (1924)
Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Le Pierrot au livre (Pierrot with Book) 1924 Oil on canvas, 65.5 × 50.8 cm Tate Britain, London On display at Tate Modern. Although this painting is resolutely figurative, it is strongly influenced by Cubism. Pierrot’s upper body…
Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante (1852)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Ink on paper, 19 × 16.8 cm Tate Britain, London The medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri inspired some of Blake‘s and Rossetti‘s greatest pictures. They each saw Dante‘s writings…
Cupidon et Psyché (1867)
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Cupidon et Psyché (Cupid and Psyche) exhibited 1867 Oil on canvas, 116.8 × 141.4 cm Tate Britain, London The tale of Cupid and Psyche was written by the Roman poet Lucius Apuleius. Psyche was given a box, supposedly…
Moisson, Le Pouldu (1890)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Moisson, Le Pouldu (Harvest: Le Pouldu) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 × 92.1 cm Tate Britain, London In 1890 Gauguin was staying at Marie Henry’s boarding house in Le Pouldu, Brittany. The headland in this painting is at the western…
Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough holding a Theorbo (c.1777)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough holding a Theorbo c.1777 Oil on canvas, 90.2 × 69.9 cm National Gallery, London This unfinished portrait of Thomas Gainsborough’s youngest daughter, Margaret (1751–1820), playing a theorbo (a kind of lute) unites two particularly personal…
The Artist’s Daughter Margaret (c.1772)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Margaret c.1772 Oil on canvas, 75.6 × 62.9 cm Tate Britain, London Gainsborough’s younger daughter, Margaret, was in her mid-twenties when her father painted this portrait. At the time she was still living with her elder…
The Artist’s Daughter Mary (1777)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Mary 1777 Oil on canvas, 77.5 × 64.8 cm Tate Britain, London Gainsborough was very fond of his two daughters and painted them frequently from childhood into their late twenties. Concerned for their future, he took…