David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Marat Assassiné (Marat Assassinated) 1793 Oil on canvas, 165 x 128 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels See also: • Marat, Jean-Paul (1743-1793)
Marat Assassiné (1793)
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Portrait of a Man (1521)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Portrait of a Man 1521 Oil on panel, 50 x 36 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This portrait is one of Dürer’s great creations. It offers a three-quarters view of an unidentified person. Dürer places him in front…
Une vocation (1896)
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Une vocation (A Calling) 1896 Oil on fabric, 104 x 71 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Seated on a stone step in the countryside, a young girl has realized that her calling in life is to be…
Les deux confrères, Avocats (1865-1870)
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les deux confrères, Avocats (The Two Colleagues, Lawyers) 1865–1870 Watercolor on paper, 25.4 × 19.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York The approximately four thousand lithographic caricatures that Honoré Daumier produced were widely circulated in nineteenth-century Paris, where they…
Autorretrato dedicado a León Trotsky (1937)
Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954) Autorretrato dedicado a León Trotsky (Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky) 1937 Oil on masonite 76 x 60.96 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington © 2012 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico,…
La Sortie du conservatoire (1876-1877)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Sortie du conservatoire (Leaving the Conservatory) 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 187.5 x 117.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Renoir uses subtle body language to convey the flirtatious exchanges among a group of young Parisians gathered outside a music…
La crucifixión (1627)
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La crucifixión (The Crucifixion) 1627 Oil on canvas, 290.3 × 165.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church clarified and reaffirmed its doctrine and practices in an effort to…
Asensio Julià (1814)
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Asensio Julià (Portrait of Asensio Julià, painter and disciple of Goya) 1814 Oil on canvas, 73 x 57.8 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Julià, Asensio (1753-1832)
Portrait de Georges Clemenceau (1879-1880)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Georges Clemenceau (Portrait of Georges Clemenceau) 1879–1880 Oil on canvas, 115.9 x 88.2 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Shortly after he became prime minister of France in 1906, Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) ordered Manet’s controversial painting…
Retrato de Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1915)
Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Retrato de Ramón Gómez de la Serna (Portrait of Ramón Gómez de la Serna) 1915 Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 90.5 cm Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires This portrait of the writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna,…