Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Due bambini molestano un gatto (Two Children Teasing a Cat) c.1587–1588 Oil on canvas, 66 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York With expressions of cruel delight, two children torment a cat with the pincers of…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer 1597 Oil on copper, 21.6 x 14.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This sensitive portrait on copper is one of Rubens’s earliest known works. The square…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Black Place II 1944 Oil on canvas, 60.6 × 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “The Black Place” was the name O’Keeffe gave to one of her favorite painting sites in New Mexico. It was a…
(1887–1986) Georgia Totto O’Keeffe The artist’s works: Black Spot No. 3 1919 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Lake George Reflection c.1921–1922 Private collection Lake George with White Birch 1921 Private collection Pink Spirea c.1922 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Dark Abstraction…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) New York Skyline, Light Buildings 1918 Transfer lithograph, 22.9 x 34.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Compare: Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) New York Skyline, Dark Buildings 1918 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia See also: • New York, NY (USA)
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) New York Skyline, Dark Buildings 1918 Transfer lithograph, 20.3 x 34.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Compare: Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) New York Skyline, Light Buildings 1918 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia See also: • New York, NY…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Kearsarge à Boulogne (The Kearsarge at Boulogne) 1864 Oil on canvas, 81.6 x 100 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the American Civil War, the United States warship Kearsarge made headlines after sinking the Confederate…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Hamlet et sa mère (Hamlet and His Mother) 1849 Oil on canvas, 27.3 x 18.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting depicts the moment in Shakespeare’s epic tragedy Hamlet in which the protagonist, who has been…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Veduta del Canale di Cannaregio a Venezia (View of the Cannaregio Canal in Venice) c.1770 Oil on canvas, 48.9 × 77.5 cm Frick Collection, New York Compare: Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Veduta sul Canale di Cannaregio, Venezia c.1775–1780 National…