El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Nature morte (Still Life) 1929 Oil on canvas, 65.1 × 50.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work belongs to Léger‘s “objects in space” series of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although overlapping forms…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Le cycliste (The Bicyclist) 1951 Oil on canvas, 130.8 x 97.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Straddling a bicycle, a sturdy woman stands still. One foot rests on the right pedal, the other on the…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) La femme au chat (Woman with a Cat) 1921 Oil on canvas, 130.8 × 90.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Woman with a Cat belongs to a group of monumental female figures that Léger painted…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Séduction (Seduction, The Proposal) 1872 Oil on canvas, 163.5 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The motif of a young man at a window, wooing a woman at her spinning wheel, and the vaguely…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le lever (Young Mother Gazing at Her Child) 1871 Oil on canvas, 142.2 x 102.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This doting mother in picturesque dress and her angelic offspring are two of many such…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus of Rotterdam c.1532 Oil on linden panel, 17.6 x 14 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hans Holbein the Younger was one of the most celebrated portraitists of the sixteenth century. At an…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery 1532–1535 Oil and gold on parchment, laid down on linden, diameter 9.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Holbein painted this small roundel about 1532–35, after his…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Doge Alvise Mocenigo presentato al Redentore (Doge Alvise Mocenigo Presented to the Redeemer) probably 1577 Oil on canvas, 97.2 x 198.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This unfinished sketch records one stage of Tintoretto’s preparation…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1550s Oil on canvas, 112.7 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of Tintoretto’s finest formal portraits, this painting depicts an unknown sitter now believed to be a…