Tag: Louvre

La débâcle près de Vétheuil (1880)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La débâcle près de Vétheuil (The Break-Up of the Ice near Vétheuil) 1880 Oil on canvas, 65.2 x 93 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Débâcle, temps gris 1880 Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa     Monet, Claude (1840-1926)…

Studio di un uomo nudo, in piedi (c.1524)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Studio di un uomo nudo, in piedi (Study of a naked man, standing) c.1524 Black stone, on red chalk lines, traces of incision with a stylus, 38.5 x 24 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Project for one of the…

Nu bleu IV (1952)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Nu bleu IV (Blue Nude IV) 1952 Blue gouache and charcoal on paper, 103 x 76 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Blue gouache and charcoal sketch on Canson paper cut out, assembled and glued directly onto white Canson…

La Charité (1842)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Charité (Charity) 1842 Oil on canvas, 109.5 x 110.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition: Seated woman breastfeeding a baby, another on her left arm, child clinging to her right shoulder, another standing behind…

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…

Paysage avec un burg en ruine (1842)

Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Paysage avec un burg en ruine au bord d’un étang dont on distingue l’autre rive (Landscape with a ruined burg at the edge of a pond, the other side of which can be seen) 1842 Pen and…

Le vieux pont (1866)

Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Le vieux pont (The Old Bridge) 1866 Pen, ink, wash and watercolor, 31.5 x 49.3 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris From 1834, when he went to the north of France and Belgium – where he returned every year…

Conversation in a Park (1746-1748)

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Conversation in a Park (Gainsborough and his wife?) c.1746–1748 Oil on canvas, 73 × 68 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris An early example of a conversation piece by Gainsborough. Often compared with Gainsborough‘s drawn portrait, from the same…