Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Mer et falaises (Sea and Cliffs) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 63.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mer et falaises (c.1885)
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Femme assise au bord de la mer (1883)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme assise au bord de la mer (By the Seashore) 1883 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 72.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir likely painted this work in his studio, posing his model in a…
Bouquet de chrysanthèmes (1881)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Bouquet de chrysanthèmes (Bouquet of Chrysanthemums) 1881 Oil on canvas, 66 x 55.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir felt that he had greater freedom to experiment in still lifes than in figure paintings. “When…
Baie de Naples au matin (1881)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baie de Naples au matin (The Bay of Naples) 1881 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The corner of the balcony visible at lower left in this composition indicates Renoir’s…
Portrait of a Woman of the Van Beresteyn Family (1632)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family 1632 Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This portrait is a pendant to the Portrait of a Man (29.100.3). If…
Portrait of a Man of the Van Beresteyn Family (1632)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family 1632 Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The man is most likely Cornelis van Beresteyn (1586–1638), a wealthy burgomaster of…
Self-Portrait (1660)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1660 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rembrandt was a dedicated self-portraitist all his life, and roughly forty self-portraits by him survive today. In this example, painted when Rembrandt was fifty-four,…
The Standard Bearer, Floris Soop (1654)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Standard Bearer, Floris Soop 1654 Oil on canvas, 140.3 x 114.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The flag, the plume in the hat, and the tooled leather baldric (sword-belt) indicate that the figure is an ensign…
The Toilet of Bathsheba (1643)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Toilet of Bathsheba 1643 Oil on wood, 57.2 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rembrandt shows the biblical figure Bathsheba completely nude, lost in a moment of contemplation and unaware that she is being observed…
Woman with a Pink (early 1660s)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Woman with a Pink early 1660s Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 74.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Her forehead crisscrossed with jewels, the sitter of this portrait displays a pink, or carnation, a symbol of love and…