Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) 1892 Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 86.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In late 1891 or early 1892 Renoir was invited by the French government to execute a…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Virgen con el Niño (Virgin and Child) 1670s Oil on canvas, 165.7 x 109.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Like Zurbarán and Velázquez, Murillo was trained in Seville, where he spent his whole career. Often referred…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Crucifixión (Crucifixion) c.1675 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 33 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This oil sketch helped Murillo to prepare a large painting that is today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The artist’s…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Majas al balcón (Majas on a Balcony) c.1800–1810 Oil on canvas, 194.9 x 125.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Attributed to Goya. The women known as majas visually distinguished themselves through opulent, exaggerated traditional dress that…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga 1787–1788 Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Outfitted in a splendid red costume, the son of the count and countess of Altamira is shown between…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Boulevard Montmartre, matin d’hiver (The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning) 1897 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York After spending six years in rural Eragny, Pissarro returned to Paris, where he…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot, Young Lady in 1866) 1866 Oil on canvas, 185.1 x 128.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet’s model, Victorine Meurent, had recently posed as the brazen nudes in…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Corpus Hypercubus (Crucifixion) 1954 Oil on canvas, 194.3 x 123.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dalí utilized his theory of “nuclear mysticism,” a fusion of Catholicism, mathematics, and science, to create this unusual interpretation of Christ’s…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) & Workshop Crucifixion and Last Judgement Diptych c.1440–1441 Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 56.5 x 19.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Crucifixion. The Last Judgement. Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, considered Van…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Le repas du lion (The Repast of the Lion) c.1907 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 160 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work was probably shown in the Salon d’Automne of 1907, but it treats a theme…