Raffaello (1483-1520) Pala Colonna (Colonna Altarpiece) c.1504–1505 Oil and gold on wood, 242 x 169.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Raphael painted this altarpiece around 1504/5 for the Franciscan convent of Sant’Antonio in Perugia. It hung in a part of…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna in trono con santi (Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints) c.1504–1505 Tempera and gold on wood, 169.5 x 168.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is the main panel of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). Raphael painted this…
Raffaello (1483-1520) L’orazione nell’Orto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1504 Oil on wood, 24.1 x 28.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). This panel was…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne dans une robe rouge (Mme Cézanne in a Red Dress) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Of the four portraits that Cézanne painted of his wife wearing a…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne dans la serre (Mme Cézanne in the Conservatory) 1891 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hortense Fiquet, a former artist’s model, met Cézanne about 1869; they had a son in…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La maison aux murs lézardés (House with Cracked Walls) 1892–1894 Oil on canvas, 80 x 64.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cézanne often painted abandoned sites near his studio outside Aix, but he depicted this house,…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot 1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 151.4 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable painter James Tissot was Degas’s friend and mentor in the 1860s and early 1870s. Posed in a studio, top hat…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Jeune Homme en costume de majo (Young Man in Costume of Majo) 1863 Oil on canvas, 188 x 124.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York For this image of one of the dashing young Spaniards known as…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Manet dans le Jardin de Bellevue (Madame Manet in the Garden at Bellevue) 1880 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 60.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite the seemingly rapid brushwork and the summary treatment of detail,…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of two versions by Manet of Delacroix‘s celebrated painting…