Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Bathsheba with King David’s Letter 1659 Oil on canvas, 115 x 87 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Bathsheba with King David’s Letter (1659)
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Naïade (c.1896)
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Naïade (Naiad) c.1896 Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 55 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Baigneuse, de dos (c.1919)
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Baigneuse, de dos (Bathing Woman, Seen from the Back) c.1919 Oil on canvas, 44.1 × 34.6 cm Tate Britain, London The bather was almost certainly Bonnard‘s companion and wife-to-be Marthe, who was the artist’s constant and favourite model. Like…
Le Bain (1925)
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Le Bain (The Bath) 1925 Oil on canvas, 86 × 120.6 cm Tate Britain, London This is one of a series of paintings that Bonnard made of his wife Marthe in the bath. Though she was in her mid-fifties,…
Le Boxeur, portrait de l’artiste (1931)
Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Le Boxeur, portrait de l’artiste (The Boxer, portrait of the artist) 1931 Oil on canvas, 54 × 74.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Nude Girl with Arms Outstretched (1911)
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Nude Girl with Arms Outstretched 1911 Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper, 48 x 31.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid At the beginning of the twentieth century, when sexuality began to be explored more seriously, some artists — among…
Le baiser (c.1816-1817)
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le baiser (The Kiss) c.1816–1817 Charcoal, wash and gouache on brown paper, 20 x 27.4 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Having failed to win the Academy prize that would finance a study trip to Italy, in 1816 Géricault decided…
Le Christ et la Madeleine (c.1894)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Christ et la Madeleine (Christ and Magdalene) c.1894 Plaster, wood, fabric, 84.5 x 74 x 44.2 cm Musée Rodin, Paris © Agence photographique du musée Rodin – Jérome Manoukian This is one of the rare testimonies that…
Baigneuses (1889)
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Baigneuses (Women Bathing) 1889 Oil on canvas, 47 x 57.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen In 1887, working in collaboration with his friend Louis Anquetin, Émile Bernard created a painting style based on flat colours enclosed…
