De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La Famille du peintre (The Painter’s Family) 1926 Oil on canvas, 146.4 × 114.9 cm Tate Britain, London In the mid-1920s de Chirico reworked many of the themes of his pre-war paintings in the light of his…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Ship 1875 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 97.8 cm Tate Britain, London Hunt began this painting after a voyage to the East with his second wife, Edith. Unusually, he painted it largely from memory, rather than from…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The golden prime of good Haroun Alraschid 1863 Watercolour on vellum, 10.2 x 12.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)
Cormon, Fernand (1845-1924) Une forge (A forge) 1893 Oil on canvas, 70.5 x 90.7 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris This is an unusual work for Cormon who was known above all for his history painting and large decorative works such as those at…
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Allant au marché (Going to Market, Brittany) 1888 Oil on canvas, 37.5 x 46 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis The Pont-Aven artists often painted aspects of daily life in Brittany. In this animated scene, a couple rides…
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…
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) Self-Portrait c.1844 Brown ink, 11.4 x 11.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Had Thackeray had his choice, he would have made his living not as an author but as an artist. Early in his career, he…
Siqueiros, David Alfaro (1896-1974) Trópico, Hoy (Tropics, Today) 1963 Pyroxilin on wood panel, 48 × 39 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton © Siqueiros David Alfaro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Il Poeta (The Poet) c.1620–1621 Etching, 15.8 x 12.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Ribera produced a small but distinctive group of sixteen etchings, most during a short span in the 1620s. Etching was then undergoing…
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Apparition 1905–1910 Oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton During the 1890s, Redon shifted his attention from charcoal drawing and lithography to a practice that embraced color, working in pastels and oil paints.…