Tag: nude

Guerrier nu avec une lance (c.1816)

Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Guerrier nu avec une lance (Nude Warrior with a Spear) c.1816 Oil on canvas, 93.6 x 75.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington At the age of nineteen, Théodore Gericault entered the Parisian studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, a successful…

The Nymph of the Spring (after 1537)

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…

Venere adornata dalle Grazie (c.1590-1595)

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…

Les Baigneuses (1854)

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…

Les femmes d’Alger, d’après Delacroix (1954)

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…