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…
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…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femme tahitienne (Tahitian Woman) c.1894 Charcoal and pastel on paper, mounted on millboard, 54.9 x 49.5 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In 1890 Paul Gauguin wrote of his attraction to the French colony of Tahiti in a manner…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme nue dans un paysage (Female Nude in a Landscape) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La toilette 1906 Oil on canvas, 151.13 x 99.06 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1904, Pablo Picasso moved from his home in Spain to the bohemian Paris neighborhood of Montparnasse, beginning his lifelong relationship with the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Petit nu bleu (Little Blue Nude) c.1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 38.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During the late 1870s Pierre-Auguste Renoir began applying Impressionist theory to the rendering of the human figure—a process that…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vénus victorieuse (Venus Victorious) 1914 Bronze, 182.6 x 81.3 x 111.1 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Venus Victrix 1914–1916 Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Venus Victrix 1914–1916 Gum-lacquered patina plaster, 192 x 134 x 73 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Vénus victorieuse 1914 Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Nu assis (Seated Nude) 1884 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.8 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baigneuse blonde (Blonde Bather) 1881 Oil on canvas, 81.6 x 65.4 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) La Baigneuse blonde c.1880–1881 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) La Baigneuse blonde 1882 Pinacoteca…