Nadar (1820-1910) Victor Hugo sur son lit de mort (Victor Hugo on His Deathbed) 1885 Woodburytype, 18.7 × 24.4 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles When the poet, playwright, and novelist Victor Hugo died in 1885, Nadar went to his deathbed to make…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Phryné devant l’aréopage (Phryné before the Areopagus) 1861 Oil on canvas, 80 x 128 cm Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Compare: Nadar (1820-1910) Femme nue debout 1860–1861 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Famed for his portraits of writers, artists, and…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Diogène (Diogenes) 1860 Oil on canvas, 74.5 x 101 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Athens (Greece) | Diogenes (c.404 BC-c.323 BC)
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Café Maison, Le Caire; la coulée balles (Cafe House, Cairo; Casting Bullets) 1884 or earlier Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 62.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York While two mercenaries cast bullets and a third, seated behind them,…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Anacréon, Bacchus et l’Amour (Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid) modeled 1878 (cast c.1893) Bronze, 72.4 × 43.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 19th century, industrial approaches to production created a new middle-class market for small-scale…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Le fumeur accoudé (The smoker leaning) 1890 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 73.5 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of a Man (Triumphal Arch in Venice) s.d. Oil on panel, 10 × 8 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) San Romualdo nega l’accesso alla chiesa all’imperatore Ottone III (Saint Romuald Refuses Emperor Otto III Admission to the Church) 1435 Tempera on panel, 22 × 27 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus Frigida (Cold Venus) 1614 Oil on panel, 143 x 184 x 3.8 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp The title refers to Terence: “sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus” (“without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes”)…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Portrait of a Man 1619 Oil on canvas, 102 × 71 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp