(1771–1835) Baron Antoine-Jean Gros The artist’s works: Autoportrait c.1790 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bonaparte au pont d’Arcole late 1796-early 1797 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Bonaparte, Premier Consul, après la bataille de Marengo 1803 Musée du Louvre, Paris Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa…
(1791–1824) Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault The artist’s works: Diane Early 19th century Museo del Prado, Madrid Le Sommeil des Paysans c.1808–1812 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Cheval effrayé par la foudre c.1813–1814 National Gallery, London Trompette à cheval de la Garde impériale de…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Prière à la mosquée (Prayer in the Mosque) 1871 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 74.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gérôme painted this scene, which depicts the interior of the seventh-century mosque of ‘Amr in Cairo, after…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Vue de Médinet el-Fayoum (View of Medinet El-Fayoum) c.1868–1870 Oil on wood, 38 x 56 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was the most publicly honored and financially successful French artist of the second half of…
(1824–1904) The artist’s works: Portrait de femme 1851 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago César mort c.1859 National Gallery of Art, Washington Les Joueurs de dames 1859 Wallace Collection, London Diogène 1860 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Phryné devant l’Areopage 1861 Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Napoléon en Egypte…
(c.1460-c.1526) The artist’s works: Arrivo a Colonia 1490 Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Meditazione sulla passione c.1490 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Apoteosi di sant’Orsola e delle sue compagne 1491 Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Incontro dei pellegrini col Papa c.1492 Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Martirio dei pellegrini…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Cavalier arabe (Arab Rider) 1854 Oil on panel, 35 x 26.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The taste for Oriental and exotic themes had spread across France during the 18th century and became more pronounced with the advent of…
(1863–1935) Paul Victor Jules Signac The artist’s works: Route de Gennevilliers 1883 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Port-en-Bessin, La Plage 1884 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid La salle à manger 1886–1887 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo La Seine aux Andelys 1886 Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Le Boulevard de Clichy, la…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bust of a Man in Oriental Dress 1633 Oil on oak, 85.8 x 63.8 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Paintings of individual figures in Holland in the seventeenth century that were neither portraits nor history paintings are called tronies…
(1841–1870) Jean Frédéric Bazille The artist’s works: La robe rose 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Autoportrait 1865–1866 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Beach at Sainte-Adresse 1865 High Museum of Art, Atlanta Forêt de Fontainebleau 1865 Musée d’Orsay, Paris L’ambulance improvisée 1865 Musée d’Orsay, Paris…