Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme espagnole avec guitare (Young Spanish Woman with Guitar) 1898 Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 65.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with pale, peachy skin and flushed cheeks sits facing our right…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Maternité (Maternity: Madame Renoir and Son) c.1916 Terra cotta, 51.1 x 24.8 x 32.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Renoir‘s wife Aline had always been among his favorite models. Her fresh, full face and figure appeared…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) L’odalisque (Odalisque) 1870 Oil on canvas, 69.2 x 122.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman wearing a sheer white blouse, short red and gold vest, and full-legged, patterned pants cinched below the knee lies back…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Portrait d’Eugène Murer (Portrait of Eugène Murer) 1878 Oil on canvas, 64.4 x 54.3 cm D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield See also: • Murer, Eugène (1841-1906)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Colonna Romano 1912 Oil on canvas, 50 x 45 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Limoges, Limoges See also: • Colonna-Romano, Gabrielle (1888-1981)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bust of a Man in Oriental Dress 1633 Oil on oak, 85.8 x 63.8 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Paintings of individual figures in Holland in the seventeenth century that were neither portraits nor history paintings are called tronies…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Holy Family c.1633–1635 Oil on canvas, 183.5 x 123 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Rembrandt presents this touching gathering of the Holy Family in the carpenter’s workshop in a monumental genre painting with almost life-sized figures that has…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume 1635 Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 97.5 cm National Gallery, London Saskia van Uylenburgh, the daughter of a burgomaster of Leeuwarden in Friesland, was 23 years old and had been married to…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait c.1628 Oil on panel, 22.6 x 18.7 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam As inexperienced as he is, the young Rembrandt does not shy away from experimenting. Here the light rakes his right cheek while the rest of his face…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Young Woman in Fantasy Costume 1633 Oil on panel, 65 x 48 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam This young woman’s clothing does not reflect the fashion of Rembrandt’s day, but dates from earlier centuries. That suggests this is a tronie,…