Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Marie l’acrobate (Mary the Acrobat) 1936 Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Circus images began to appear in Léger’s work roughly twenty years prior to Marie l’acrobate (Marie, the…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 1632 Oil on canvas, 114 x 78 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In the iconography of St Francis of Assisi, which began shortly after his…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 17th century Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 57 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Natività (Nativity) c.1585–1594 Oil on canvas, 111 x 80 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The Virgin, reclining on a hay mattress, contemplates the Child Jesus lying on a blue cloth. Saint Joseph, on the…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Young Woman 1634 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 55.6 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires This bust of a young woman turning slightly to the left and inclining her head just a bit…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Portrait of a Young Woman with a Feathered Hat 17th century Oil on panel, 129 cm x 78.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Portrait de Suzanne Valadon (Portrait of Suzanne Valadon) 1885 Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In 1885, at the age of just twenty-one, in search of independence and…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Portrait du père de l’artiste (Portrait of the Artist’s Father) c.1905 Oil on canvas, 21.8 x 16 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Henri Rousseau is one of the most representative and interesting figures in…