Tag: portrait

Hendrickje Stoffels (mid–1650s)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Hendrickje Stoffels mid-1650s Oil on canvas, 78.4 x 68.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hendrickje Stoffels, the daughter of a soldier, worked as Rembrandt’s housekeeper, eventually becoming his common-law wife and mother of his daughter, Cornelia. While…

Madame Derain au châle blanc (c.1919-1920)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Madame Derain au châle blanc (Madame Derain in a White Shawl) c.1919–1920 Oil on canvas, 195.5 x 97.5 cm Tate Britain, London In this portrait of his wife Alice, Derain has adopted some of the compositional and stylistic…

Henri Matisse (1905)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Henri Matisse 1905 Oil on canvas, 46 x 34.9 cm Tate Britain, London A portrait of the painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954), executed at Collioure in the summer of 1905 at the same period as the portrait of Derain…

André Derain (1905)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) André Derain 1905 Oil on canvas, 39.4 x 28.9 cm Tate Britain, London A portrait of the painter André Derain (1880-1954), executed at Collioure in the summer of 1905 at the same time as the portrait of Matisse…

Le chevalier X, l’homme au journal (1911-1914)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Le chevalier X, l’homme au journal (Portrait of a Man with a Newspaper) 1911–1914 Oil on canvas, 162.5 x 97.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Chevalier X was the name that the poet Guillaume Apollinaire invented for Derain’s…

Portrait d’une jeune fille en noir (1913-1914)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Portrait d’une jeune fille en noir (Portrait of a Girl in Black) 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.3 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Under the influence of Cézanne, but also due to his friendship with Picasso and…

La princesse Pauline de Metternich (c.1865)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La princesse Pauline de Metternich (Princess Pauline de Metternich) c.1865 Oil on canvas, 41 x 29 cm National Gallery, London Princess Pauline Sander (1836–1921) was the wife of Prince Richard Metternich, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at the court…