Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Deux danseuses jaunes et roses (Two Dancers in Yellow and Pink) 1898 Pastel on paper, 106 x 108 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Degas alternated between working with oil painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture.…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le torero mort (The Dead Toreador) probably 1864 Oil on canvas, 75.9 x 153.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington From a low perspective, we look at a man wearing black and white, lying on the ground…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Giovanni de’ Medici 1550–1551 Oil on panel, 66.2 x 52.8 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford See also: • Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo I de’ (1543-1562)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo c.1543 Oil on panel, 59 x 46 cm National Gallery, Prague Eleanor of Toledo (1522—1562) was the daughter of the Viceroy of Naples Don Pedro de Toledo. This beautiful woman was represented by the Florentine painter…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) 1550–1555 Oil on wood, 75 x 57.5 cm National Gallery, London It has previously been thought that this portrait may represent one of the elder sons of Duke Cosimo…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Rêverie, ou Portrait de l’actrice Jeanne Samary (Daydreaming or Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary) 1877 Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow Female images occupy a special place in Renoir‘s work, becoming…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille au chapeau (Young Girl in a Pink-and-Black Hat) c.1891 Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 32.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of many paintings that Renoir made in the 1890s of…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Woman Holding a Pink 1656 Oil on canvas, 103 x 86 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…
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…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Mlle V. en costume d’espada (Mademoiselle V. in the Costume of an Espada) 1862 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 127.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet depicted model Victorine Meurent (1844–1927) in the guise of a…