Tag: nude

La maja desnuda (1795-1800)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La maja desnuda (The Naked Maja) 1795–1800 Oil on canvas, 97.3 x 190.6 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid An image of Venus in the nude, lying on a green velvet divan with pillows and a spread. Legend…

Corral de locos (1794)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Corral de locos (Yard with Madmen) 1794 Oil on tin-plated iron, 42.9 x 31.4 cm Meadows Museum, Dallas Compare: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Casa de locos after 1794 Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna    

Un homme à son bain (1884)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Un homme à son bain (Man at His Bath) 1884 Oil on canvas, 144.8 x 114.3 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston This painting presents an unusually intimate scene from everyday life at the grand scale once reserved…

Olympia (1863)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Olympia 1863 Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 191 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris With Olympia, Manet reworked the traditional theme of the female nude, using a strong, uncompromising technique. Both the subject matter and its depiction explain the scandal…

Minerva in atto di abbigliarsi (1613)

Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Minerva in atto di abbigliarsi (Minerva Dressing) 1613 Oil on canvas, 258 x 190 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The work, which dates back to 1613, was painted in Rome, evoked here through the dome of St. Peter’s visible…

Le Rêve (1910)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Le Rêve (The Dream) 1910 Oil on canvas, 204.5 x 298.5 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York “The woman asleep on the couch is dreaming she has been transported into the forest, listening to the sounds from the…

La Guerre (c.1894)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Guerre (War, or Discord on Horseback) c.1894 Oil on canvas, 114.5 x 195 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris More than twenty years after the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870 and the Commune in 1871 when the Douanier Rousseau painted War,…

La charmeuse de serpents (1907)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La charmeuse de serpents (The Snake Charmer) 1907 Oil on canvas, 167 x 189.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Rousseau, who was self-taught and began painting late in life, travelled very little. Most of his jungles were painted in the…

Le Garçon au chat (1868)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Garçon au chat (Young Boy with a Cat) 1868 Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 66 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris The Boy with the Cat has not given up all its secrets. This male nude has no equivalent in…