Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) The Nymph of the Spring after 1537 Oil on panel, 48.4 x 72.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington The nymph reclines beside a spring, perhaps a reference to a legendary ancient Roman fountain with which a…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Venere adornata dalle Grazie (Venus Adorned by the Graces) c.1590–1595 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 133 x 170.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In the left half of this horizontal painting, a bare-chested, seated woman, Venus, is…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) c.1720 Oil on canvas, 66.7 x 54.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Guercino (1591-1666) Nudo con drappeggi (Nude with Drapery) s.d. Pencil on paper, 18.9 x 23.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Constable, John (1776-1837) Study of a Female Nude 1811 Black and white chalk on blue paper Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Les Baigneuses (Bathers) 1854 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 79.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford At the height of his career, Eugène Delacroix was challenged by a patron in 1854 to paint a scene of female bathers in a forest…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Les femmes d’Alger, d’après Delacroix (The Women of Algiers, after Delacroix) 1954 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 72.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Between December 1954 and February 1955, Picasso painted fifteen canvases inspired by Eugène Delacroix‘s famous painting of…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Le peintre (The Painter) 1934 Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 80.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Picasso depicts himself standing before his model, Marie Thérèse Walter, object of his passion and persistent subject in his work for nearly…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La Baigneuse (The Bather) 1922 Oil on panel, 18.7 x 12.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Baigneuse au bord de la mer (Bather by the sea) 1939 Gouache on laid paper, 64.1 × 46.4 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Bather by the Sea is readily identified as Dora Maar by the shoulder-length dark hair,…