Tag: nude

Le Bain (c.1900)

Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Le Bain (The Bath) c.1900 Brush, ink, chalk and gouache, 59.1 x 44 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Bracquemond drew extensively and promoted the medium as the source of all artistic practice. This drawing relates to Félix…

Bacchante sur une panthère (1855)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Bacchante sur une panthère (Bacchante on a Panther) 1855 Oil on fabric, 71.3 x 111.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair). These paintings are from a series…

L’Implorante (1898)

Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) L’Implorante (The Implorer) modeled 1898, cast c.1905 Bronze, 27.9 × 36.8 × 21.3 cm, 5.3 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Camille Claudel, Rodin’s most brilliant student, was consumed by her twelve-year affair with the sculptor. In…

Nu couché (1928)

Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1928 Oil on cardboard, 60 x 80.48 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Suzanne Valadon posed as a model for the artists Renoir, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec before she began painting herself in 1893.…

Danse I (1909)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Danse I (Dance I) 1909 Oil on canvas, 259.7 x 390.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York See also: Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Capucines avec le tableau “Danse” I 1912 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York    

Baccanale con un tino di vino (c.1470-1490)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Baccanale con un tino di vino (Bacchanal with a Wine Vat) c.1470–1490 Engraving and drypoint, 29.9 x 43.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Throughout his life, Mantegna was fascinated with classical antiquity. In the middle of…

Torse (1892)

Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Torse (Torso) 1892 Plaster, h. 54.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

La Morte di Cleopatra (c.1645-1655)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) c.1645–1655 Oil on canvas, 95 × 75 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The subject, from Plutarch’s Lives (1st century A.D.), is Cleopatra’s suicide by an asp bite following the…

Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld (1630s)

Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Oil on copper, 26.7 x 35.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the “hell landscapes” of Jan Brueghel…

God Judging Adam (c.1795)

Blake, William (1757-1827) God Judging Adam c.1795 Relief etching, printed in color and finished with pen and ink and watercolor, 42.5 x 52.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A nude and aged Adam, newly aware of his own nakedness and…