Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Bacchante dans un paysage (Bacchante in a Landscape) 1865–1870 Oil on canvas, 30.8 x 61.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting is closely related to Bacchante by the Sea, also in the Museum’s collection,…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Joueurs de cartes (The Card Players) 1890–1892 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 81.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cézanne was in his fifties when he undertook a painting campaign devoted to giving memorable form to a…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Portrait de Femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1885 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A notebook kept by Fantin’s wife is said to record the circumstances surrounding this picture. The…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Virgen Niña (The Young Virgin) c.1632–1633 Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 94 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York According to medieval legend, as a girl the Virgin Mary lived in the Temple in Jerusalem, where…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Benito (Saint Benedict) c.1640–1645 Oil on canvas, 188 x 103.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting formed part of a series by Zurbarán representing the thirteen founders of monastic orders, known today…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Nature morte aux fleurs et fruit (Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) 1866 Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of four still lifes commissioned from the artist…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Mlle V. en costume d’espada (Mademoiselle V. in the Costume of an Espada) 1862 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 127.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet depicted model Victorine Meurent (1844–1927) in the guise of a…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Illustration to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (Open Here I Flung the Shutter) 1875 Lithograph on laid (Hollande) paper, 54.2 x 35 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Translator: Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898): Le Corbeau…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Venere e il suonatore di liuto (Venus and the Lute Player) c.1565–1570 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ultima comunione di san Gerolamo (Last Communion of Saint Jerome) early 1490s Tempera and gold on wood,34.3 x 25.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The great fourth-century scholar and translator of the Bible into Latin is shown in…