Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) La Générosité (Generosity) 1894 Oil and pencil on buff paper mounted on canvas, 142.2 × 284.5 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) was born in Lyon and only in 1847, after…
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1922 Oil on canvas, 40.96 × 57.79 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Nude Study c.1903 Graphite on cream wove paper, 33.4 x 31.9 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Bacchus and Venus 17th Century Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 115.3 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Venere disarma Cupido (Venus Disarming Cupid) 1550–1555 Oil on canvas, 158.8 x 138.4 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Toilette de Vénus (The Toilette of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 108.3 x 85.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boucher executed this painting for Madame de Pompadour, the powerful, official mistress of Louis XV and…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Susanna Crouching c.1640–1645 Chalk with watercolor, 28.7 x 41.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) La Paix (Peace) 1860 Oil on canvas, 85.1 x 107.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Two children embrace each other within a pastoral setting in this idyllic view. Adolphe-William Bouguereau, the prominent academic painter, showed “Peace”…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Baigneurs (Bathers) 1890–1892 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 66 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis A group of male bathers relaxes alongside a riverbank: all are nude with the exception of a single figure to the right…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Judgement of Paris 1530 Oil and tempera on panel, 50.8 x 36.4 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Lucas Cranach’s interpretation of the Judgment of Paris is a medieval retelling of an ancient beauty contest.…