Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Bacchante sur une panthère (Bacchante on a Panther) 1855 Oil on fabric, 71.3 x 111.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair). These paintings are from a series…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Arion sur un hippocampe (Arion on a Sea Horse) 1855 Oil on fabric, 71.3 x 111.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair). These paintings are from a…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Une vocation (A Calling) 1896 Oil on fabric, 104 x 71 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Seated on a stone step in the countryside, a young girl has realized that her calling in life is to be…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) A Young Woman as a Shepherdess s.d. Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 66.7 x 50.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Inscribed (lower right): Rembrandt f. / 1632. Like many of Rembrandt’s other pupils, Govert Flinck…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Léopold Zborowski 1916–1919 Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Before moving to Paris in 1906, Modigliani studied in the academies of Florence and Venice, in Italy. In the French capital, he…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Femme fumant une cigarette (Woman Smoking a Cigarette) 1890 Oil, watercolor, and graphite over charcoal on paper board, 47 x 29.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Around 1890 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec produced a number of works depicting…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femme tahitienne (Tahitian Woman) c.1894 Charcoal and pastel on paper, mounted on millboard, 54.9 x 49.5 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In 1890 Paul Gauguin wrote of his attraction to the French colony of Tahiti in a manner…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) La soeur aînée, réduction (The Elder Sister, reduction) c.1864 Oil on panel, 55.6 x 45.6 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Signed lower right on chest: “W Bouguereau” This painting portrays a young woman dressed in garments that seem…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1480 Tempera with oil glazes on panel, 26.7 x 21.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Signed center bottom on cartellino: “IOHANNES BELLINUS” Sitting in the occhio e mezzo (eye…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman) 1883–1885 Oil on canvas, 142.24 x 101.6 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman), also referred to as The Reception, belongs to a series of fifteen large paintings that James Tissot executed between…