Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait de Victor Chocquet 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 36.8 cm Private collection See also: • Chocquet, Victor (1821-1891)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chanteuse de Café / Chanteuse au Gant (Café Singer / Singer with a Glove) c.1878 Pastel on canvas, 53.2 x 41 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Because pastel paints can fade, this extraordinary work can be exhibited only…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Victorine Meurent c.1862 Oil on canvas, 42.9 x 43.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Victorine-Louise Meurent (1844-1927) was a professional artist’s model and painter in her own right, exhibiting work at the Paris Salon in 1876 and…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) 1515 Oil on canvas, 90 x 72 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma This early masterpiece by Titian, which illustrates the terrible biblical episode in a dark…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) 1474 Tempera on poplar panel, 195 x 75 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin The Roman officer Sebastian was supposed to renounce his Christian faith in order to serve as the bodyguard of the Emperor Diocletian. When he…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Giuliano de’ Medici 1478 Tempera on poplar, 57.1 x 38.4 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Attributed to Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) Giuliano de’ Medici, the younger brother of Lorenzo the Magnifico, was murdered in Florence Cathedral in 1478 at the age…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane donna (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1475–1480 Oil on poplar, 55.4 x 43 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin In the past, this portrait was considered to be that of Simonetta Vespucci, venerated by Giuliano de’ Medici, who died…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Vergine Annunciata (Virgin Annunciate) c.1473–1474 Oil and tempera on panel, 42.5 x 32.8 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich This panel painting, created for private devotional use, shows the Virgin Mary after being brought the message of the Annunciation.…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) 1478 Oil on walnut panel, 20.4 x 14.5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin An inconspicuous note, stuck as if by chance to the parapet in the foreground, states the year in…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1474 Oil on poplar, 34.1 x 27.1 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SIGNATURE / INSCRIPTION: .1474./Antonellus messanus / me pinxit