Tag: portrait

Portrait of Baertje Martens (c.1640)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Baertje Martens c.1640 Oil on oak panel, 76 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Companion: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Herman Doomer 1640 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     See also: • Martens, Baertje (1596-1678)

Herman Doomer (1640)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Herman Doomer 1640 Oil on wood, 75.2 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Herman Doomer was a successful cabinetmaker who worked with the imported ebony fashionable in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The exceptional care Rembrandt took with this…

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…