Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Portrait of Theodore Duret (Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black) 1883 Oil on canvas, 193.4 x 90.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Theodore Duret (1838–1927), heir to a firm of Cognac dealers, was a…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Théodore Duret (Portrait of Théodore Duret) 1868 Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 35.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris After the tumultuous exhibition of the Olympia (Paris, Musée d’Orsay) that scandalised the Salon in 1865, Manet left for Spain…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) François 1er reçoit les derniers soupirs de Léonard de Vinci (Francis I receives the last breaths of Leonardo da Vinci) 1818 Oil on canvas, 40 x 50.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris Following his stay in Rome…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Combat du Giaour et du Pacha (Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha) 1835 Oil on canvas, 73 x 61 cm Petit Palais, Paris The Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha, painted by Delacroix in 1835, is…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Place de la Concorde 1875 Oil on canvas, 78.4 x 117.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Place de la Concorde (Paris)
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Betrayal of Christ c.1618–1620 Oil on canvas, 141.92 x 113.3 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Looser and less formal than the portraits that made him famous, this work was completed shortly before Van Dyck began…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Portrait de l’artiste Alphonse Legros (Portrait of the Artist Alphonse Legros) 1856 Oil on linen, 26.67 x 22.86 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Painted entirely en plein air during an outing in the French countryside, Fantin-Latour depicts…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) La tentazione di Cristo (The Temptation of Christ) c.1516–1525 Oil on panel, 89.85 x 69.69 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis This painting portrays one of three temptations that Christ faced during his forty days fast in the…
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo expulsando a los mercaderes del templo (Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple) c.1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 116.84 x 149.86 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Christ’s expulsion of the money changers who were desecrating…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le fumeur (The Smoker) 1866 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81.3 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis This working-class character was one of many ordinary Parisians painted by Manet in the 1860s. A year before making this portrait,…