Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Isabella Brant c.1620–1625 Oil on wood, 53 x 46 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Isabella Brant was Rubens’s first wife. He painted her many times in many different ways before she died at the…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Musique (Music) 1939 Oil on canvas, 115.25 x 115.25 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Music was a constant part of Henri Matisse’s life and an endless source of enjoyment and inspiration. He played the violin daily,…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life) 1925 Oil on canvas, 100.01 x 80.01 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Marc Chagall was born into a Hasidic Jewish family in an area of the Russian Empire that is now Belarus.…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) La Jeune bonne (The Servant Girl) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 60.96 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Between 1915 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani executed many portraits in a style characterized by sparse settings and figures rendered…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) 1892 Oil on jute mounted on canvas, 73.02 x 92.39 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1891, after many years without commercial success in France, Paul Gauguin traveled to the…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Attributed Anna Zborowska c.1919 Oil on canvas, 66 x 50.8 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • Anna Zborowska (1885-1978)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Testa di donna inclinata, sorridente, occhi bassi (Woman’s head tilted, smiling, eyes downcast) c.1543 Black chalk on paper, 28.8 × 21.6 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Study for the young woman appearing on the far left of the composition…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’homme (Antonin Proust?) 1855 Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm National Gallery, Prague See also: • Proust, Antonin (1832-1905)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Giovane donna con cappello a tricorno (Young Lady in a Tricorn Hat) c.1755–1760 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 49.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington