Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Portrait de Maurice Utrillo (Portrait of Maurice Utrillo) 1921 Oil on canvas Private collection See also: • Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955)
El Greco (1541-1614) El caballero de la mano en el pecho (The Gentleman with His Hand at His Breast) c.1580 Oil on canvas, 81.8 x 66.1 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This bust-length portrait entered the royal collections as a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Lise cousant (Lise Sewing) c.1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 56.52 × 46.36 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas See also: • Tréhot, Lise (1848-1922)
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Nature morte (Still Life) 1929 Oil on canvas, 65.1 × 50.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work belongs to Léger‘s “objects in space” series of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although overlapping forms…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Le cycliste (The Bicyclist) 1951 Oil on canvas, 130.8 x 97.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Straddling a bicycle, a sturdy woman stands still. One foot rests on the right pedal, the other on the…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Cosimo I de’ Medici in armatura (Cosimo I de’ Medici in armour) c.1545 Oil on poplar panel, 86 x 66.8 x 3.5 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Bronzino was the leading painter in mid 16th-century…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Raising of the Cross c.1633 Oil on canvas, 96.2 x 72.2 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The six…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Elderly Man as Saint Paul probably 1659 Oil on canvas, 102 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London Between the late 1650s and early 1660s Rembrandt painted a series of intimate half-length pictures of religious figures. He seems…