Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) Portrait of a Young Woman c.1435–1440 Silverpoint on cream prepared paper, 16.6 x 11.6 cm British Museum, London
Portrait of a Young Woman (c.1435-1440)
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Jeune fille en décolleté, la fleur aux cheveux (1893)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune fille en décolleté, la fleur aux cheveux (Young girl in a low cut dress with a flower in her hair) 1893 Oil on canvas, 70 x 51.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Tête d’homme regardant vers le haut et de côté (pre 1877)
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Tête d’homme regardant vers le haut et de côté (Head of a man looking upwards and sideways) pre 1877 Oil on canvas, 21 × 17.7 in Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Acteurs de la Comedie-Francaise (1711-1712)
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Acteurs de la Comedie-Francaise (Actors of the Comédie-Française) 1711–1712 Oil on panel, 20 × 25 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Watteau was very fond of the play Les trois cousines (The Three Cousins) by Florent Carton, known as Dancourt,…
Chaim Soutine (1917)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Chaim Soutine 1917 Oil on canvas, 91.7 x 59.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Born in 1884 to an aristocratic family in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani settled in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris in 1906 and began…
Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni (1489-1490)
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni 1489–1490 Mixed media on panel, 77 x 49 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This superb panel is a fine example of fifteenth-century Florentine portraiture. Artists of the time followed classical dictates: body proportions were idealised while…
A Young Man at Prayer (c.1475)
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) A Young Man at Prayer c.1475 Oil on oak, 39 x 25.4 cm National Gallery, London A pale young man, hands folded in prayer, is engaged in private devotions. The book is presumably a prayer book or a Book…
Virgin and Child (c.1475)
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Virgin and Child c.1475 Oil on oak, 37.9 x 28 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary, bareheaded and richly dressed, holds the naked Christ Child, who rests on a white cushion on a ledge of purple-grey veined…
Jeanne Hébuterne (1918)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Jeanne Hébuterne 1918 Oil on canvas, 101 x 65.7 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena See also: • Hébuterne, Jeanne (1898-1920)
Apostle Judas Thaddeus (c.1619-1621)
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Apostle Judas Thaddeus 1619–1621 Oil on oak, 61.4 × 49.7 × 2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The so-called Böhler series of 13 busts depicting Christ and the 12 apostles (only two of them in the KHM) dates…