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…
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,”…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of a Woman c.1760 Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 63.5 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
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)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune fille au panier (Young Girl with Basket) 1892 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Wearing a chiffon-trimmed hat and holding a straw basket, Berthe Morisot’s young sitter waits, poised to pick flowers…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait de Madame Cézanne (Portrait of Madame Cézanne) 1885–1886 Oil on canvas, 61.9 × 51.1 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Hortense Fiquet—Cézanne’s mistress, mother of his son, Paul, and later his wife—was the artist’s most frequent model, appearing…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Yeux bleus (Blue Eyes) 1917 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 42.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Born in Livorno, Italy, on the coast of Tuscany, Modigliani moved to Paris in January 1906, where he quickly fell in with…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Blonde à la rose (Blonde Girl with a Rose) c.1915–1917 Oil on canvas, 64 x 54 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris Renoir painted this portrait of Andrée-Madeleine Heuschling towards the end of his life. She was then aged just…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La baigneuse, dite Baigneuse de Valpinçon (The Bather, known as The Valpinçon Bather) 1808 Oil on canvas, 146 x 97.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Body of a woman naked from behind seated on the edge of…
Siqueiros, David Alfaro (1896-1974) Autorretrato (Self-Portrait) 1948 Oil on hardboard, 120.7 x 90.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington