Tag: portrait

Martin Luther (1529)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Martin Luther 1529 Oil on panel, 41.9 x 28.5 cm Private Collection Compare: Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Martin Luther 1525 Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol     Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Martin…

Frederick III the Wise (1533)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) & Workshop Frederick III the Wise 1533 Oil on beech, 20.3 x 14.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York These posthumous portraits of the Saxon electors Friedrich III, the Wise, and Johann I, the Constant…

Portrait of Frederick the Wise (1530-1535)

Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Frederick the Wise 1530–1535 Oil on panel, 62.9 x 47.3 cm Private Collection Compare: Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Frederick the Wise c.1525 Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia     Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Frederick…

Ritratto di un cavaliere di Malta (1608)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ritratto di un cavaliere di Malta, Fra Antonio Martelli (Portrait of a Knight of Malta) 1608 Oil on canvas, 118.5 x 95.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze See also: • Martelli, Antonio (1534-1618)

Ragazzo morso da un ramarro (c.1594-1595)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ragazzo morso da un ramarro (Boy bitten by a Lizard) c.1594–1595 Oil on canvas, 66 x 49.5 cm National Gallery, London An effeminate youth with curling locks, full lips and a rose tucked behind one ear, recoils in surprise at…

Giovane con canestra di frutta (c.1595)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Giovane con canestra di frutta (Boy with a basket of fruit) c.1595 Oil on canvas, 70 x 67 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The canvas comes from the group of works confiscated in 1607 from Giuseppe Cesari, known as the Cavalier…

La Femme aux chrysanthèmes (1865)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La Femme aux chrysanthèmes (A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers, Madame Paul Valpinçon?) 1865 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The juxtaposition of the prominent bouquet and the off-center figure,…

Manet et son chevalet (1868-1870)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Manet et son chevalet (Manet and his Easel) 1868–1870 Charcoal, blue and white chalk on blue laid paper faded to yellow-gray, 29.5 x 21.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This sensitive drawing testifies to the collaboration and…

Mauresque (1869)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Mauresque (Woman in a Moorish Costume) 1869 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 59 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Lise Tréhot, Renoir’s first mistress, model, and muse, is here depicted with quiet eroticism by that artist’s friend and colleague, Bazille.…

Jeune femme aux pivoines (1870)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Jeune femme aux pivoines (Young Woman with Peonies) 1870 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 75.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Holding a bunch of peonies in one hand, a woman with brown skin leans forward, toward us from…