Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Hamlet et sa mère (Hamlet and His Mother) 1849 Oil on canvas, 27.3 x 18.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting depicts the moment in Shakespeare’s epic tragedy Hamlet in which the protagonist, who has been…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le chant du berger (The Shepherd’s Song) 1891 Oil on canvas, 104.5 x 109.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Puvis adapted this composition from a mural that he made for the Musée des Beaux-Arts…
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) L’Implorante (The Implorer) modeled 1898, cast c.1905 Bronze, 27.9 × 36.8 × 21.3 cm, 5.3 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Camille Claudel, Rodin’s most brilliant student, was consumed by her twelve-year affair with the sculptor. In…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) The Yellow Room c.1883–1884 Watercolor and gouache on paperboard, 24.8 × 17.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Yellow Room is among Whistler’s most accomplished watercolors, a harmonious “arrangement” of violet and yellow, dating…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La Cena de Emaús (The Supper at Emmaus) 1622–1623 Oil on canvas, 123.2 x 132.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting depicts the moment after the Resurrection when Jesus is recognized by two disciples as…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) I primi frutti della terra offerti a Saturno (The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn) 1555–1556 Pen, ink and chalk, 17.2 x 39.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The drawing, surely from the hand…
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1928 Oil on cardboard, 60 x 80.48 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Suzanne Valadon posed as a model for the artists Renoir, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec before she began painting herself in 1893.…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Le moulin de Sannois (The Windmill at Sannois) 1912 Oil on cardboard, 53.7 × 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In the spring of 1912 Utrillo was admitted to an institution in Sannois, on the outskirts…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Moulin Rouge: La Goulue 1891 Lithograph, 190 x 116.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the brassy dance hall and drinking garden of the Moulin Rouge opened on the boulevard de Clichy in 1889, one…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) En plein soleil (In Full Sunlight) c.1881 Oil on wood, 24.8 x 35.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cascading sunlight illuminates the colorful open parasol and beribboned hats of the group lounging on the grass. This…