Tag: nude

Susanna e i Vecchioni (1552-1555)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Susanna e i Vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1552–1555 Oil on canvas, 58 x 116 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This canvas is part of a group of six paintings: Susannah and the Elders (P386), Esther and…

La Femme à la vague (1868)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Femme à la vague (The Woman in the Waves) 1868 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 54 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1864 and 1868 Courbet undertook a series of paintings of the female nude.…

Femme au perroquet (1866)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot) 1866 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 195.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When this painting was shown in the Salon of 1866, some critics censured Courbet‘s “lack of…

La jeune baigneuse (1866)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La jeune baigneuse (The Young Bather) 1866 Oil on canvas, 130.2 x 97.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The traditional theme of women bathing attracted Courbet’s attention repeatedly in the 1860s. This scene revisits a…

Trois femmes tahitiennes (1896)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Trois femmes tahitiennes (Three Tahitian Women) 1896 Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 43.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This panel once carried a note by the artist: “To the unknown collector of my works, Greetings—…

Deux femmes tahitiennes (1899)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Deux femmes tahitiennes (Two Tahitian Women) 1899 Oil on canvas, 94 x 72.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The canvases that Gauguin sent back to France from the South Seas reflect the license he exercised…

Femmes tahitiennes se baignant (1892)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femmes tahitiennes se baignant (Tahitian Women Bathing) 1892 Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 111.12 x 89.21 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dreaming of a paradise where he could “listen to the silence of…

Venere e Cupido (c.1575-1580)

Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Venere e Cupido (Venus and Cupid) c.1575–1580 Oil on wood, 143 x 226.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier The Mannerist painter Allori designed a complex representation of Venus which owes much to the powerful figures of Michelangelo. The…

Allegoria del trionfo di Venere (c.1545)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Allegoria del trionfo di Venere (An Allegory with Venus and Cupid) c.1545 Oil on wood, 146.1 x 116.2 cm National Gallery, London This is one of Bronzino’s most complex and enigmatic paintings. It contains a tangle of moral…