Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn 1870 Wood engraving, 35.2 x 23.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York A young woman sounds the call for the noonday meal for the men laboring in the distant field. The wind pulls her skirts outward behind…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Northeaster 1895; reworked by 1901 Oil on canvas, 87.6 x 127 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York On the Maine coast, a “nor’easter” is a storm of exceptional violence and duration. When Homer first showed this canvas…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Tentazione sul monte (The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain) 1308–1311 Tempera on poplar panel, 43.2 x 46 cm Frick Collection, New York This painting was part of the predella (the bottom tier) of the Maestà altarpiece made…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Ovide chez les Scythes (Ovid among the Scythians) 1862 Oil on paper, laid down on wood, 32.1 x 50.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is the final work Delacroix devoted to a theme that had first…
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Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Gala Éluard 1924 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This evocative portrait reveals the deeply intertwined personal and artistic lives of members of the Surrealist circle and depicts the movement’s fascination…
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Self-Portrait 1911 Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 51.4 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Egon Schiele‘s career was short, intense, and amazingly productive. Before succumbing to influenza in 1918 at the age of twenty-eight,…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Intérieur avec des peintures et un faisan (Interior with Paintings and a Pheasant) 1928 Tempera and pastel on canvas, 84.5 × 104.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting in the background of this work shows…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Marte e Venere uniti dall’Amore (Mars and Venus United by Love) 1570s Oil on canvas, 205.7 x 161 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The love between Mars, the god of war, and Venus, the goddess of…