Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Daniele Barbaro 1545 Oil on canvas, 85.8 x 71.5 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Daniele Barbaro c.1545 Museo del Prado, Madrid See also: • Barbaro, Daniele (1513-1570)
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Il trionfo di Mardocheo (The Triumph of Mordecai, from “The Book of Esther”) c.1475 Tempera and oil on poplar, 48.3 x 43.2 x 3.5 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa These work belonged to a set of six…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Ambroise Vollard 1904–1905 (printed 1919) Lithograph on paper, 33.2 x 25.3 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa See also: • Vollard, Ambroise (1866-1939)
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) & Workshop John Frederick the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony 1533 Oil on panel, 20 x 14 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting was made following the mechanised procedures used by various German workshops in the…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Self-portrait 1498 Oil on panel, 52 x 41 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In the same year that he published the Apocalipsis cum figuris, Dürer painted himself as a gentleman, dressed in light toned clothes and looking his…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Apollo insegue Dafne (Apollo Pursuing Daphne) c.1755–1760 Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 87 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Throughout his career Tiepolo painted small pictures of mythological themes, which proved extremely popular. The subjects of these works…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le fils prodigue (The Prodigal Son) c.1879 Oil on linen, 106.5 x 146.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le fils prodigue 1879 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Puvis de…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La Tragédie (The Tragedy) 1903 Oil on wood, 105.3 x 69 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Painted entirely in shades of blue, this vertical scene shows a woman, an elderly man, and a young child standing close…
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Portrait d’un vieil homme (Portrait of an Old Man) s.d. Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 38.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Henri Rochefort 1880 Drypoint on laid paper, 27.9 x 36.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Rochefort, Victor Henri (1831-1913)