Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Mortlake Terrace 1827 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 122.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This painting, one of two views of Mortlake Terrace painted by Turner, is a view from the house, looking directly…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Julie Manet et sa levrette Laërte (Julie Manet and Her Greyhound Laertes) 1893 Oil on canvas, 73 x 80 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris After the death of Eugène Manet in 1892, Berthe Morisot left the rue…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Autoportrait ou Corot, la palette à la main (Self Portrait or Corot, palette in hand) c.1835 Oil on canvas, 33 × 25 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Uffizi asked Corot for a self-portrait in 1872. Shortly after…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Charpentier et ses enfants (Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children) 1878 Oil on canvas, 153.7 x 190.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this commissioned portrait, as Marcel Proust observed, Renoir gave expression to…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de Madame Colonna Romano (Portrait of Colonna Romano) s.d. Oil on canvas Musée Renoir, Cagnes-sur-Mer See also: • Colonna-Romano, Gabrielle (1888-1981)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait at an Easel 1660 Oil on canvas, 111 x 85 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris One of Rembrandt‘s large self-portraits with those of Vienna (1652), the Frick Collection in New York (1658) and Kenwood (c.1665–1669), all late…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Musical Company 1626 Oil on panel, 63.5 x 48 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The subject of this painting is a mystery: is it an exhortation to praise God through singing and string music, or a scene of seduction with…
Rembrandt and Workshop? (1606-1669) The Apostle Paul c.1657 Oil on canvas, 131.5 x 104.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Woman with a Pink early 1660s Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 74.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Her forehead crisscrossed with jewels, the sitter of this portrait displays a pink, or carnation, a symbol of love and…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) The Fireplace 1912 Oil on canvas, 14 x 21 cm Private Collection