Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di un uomo (Portrait of a Man, possibly Girolamo Rosati) 1533–1534 Oil on canvas, 108.2 x 100.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The gesture of the elegantly dressed man is a mystery. Is he rising from…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jean dessinant (The Artist’s Son, Jean, Drawing) 1901 Oil on canvas, 45.09 × 54.61 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond The simplified palette of this portrait of Renoir’s second son, Jean, is limited to a range of…
Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757) Una donna che si mette dei fiori nei capelli (A Woman Putting Flowers in Her Hair) c.1710 Watercolor on ivory in a tortoiseshell pique-point frame, 8.6 x 10.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Scholars generally agree that…
Campin, Robert (c.1378-1444) John the Baptist c.1410 Oil on oak panel, 17.3 x 11.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland According to tradition, John the Baptist wears a hair shirt under a white cloth, associated with newly baptized Christians. The flag…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Sarah Bernhardt 1898 Lithograph on wove paper, 28.2 x 24 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Caricature de Paul Gauguin (Caricature of Paul Gauguin) 1889 Watercolor and black ink on paper, 19.9 x 15.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Émile Bernard worked closely with Paul Gauguin in the village of Pont-Aven during the…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Portrait de Renoir (Portrait of Renoir) 1867 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 32.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Born to a wealthy family in Montpellier, France, Bazille came to Paris to study medicine and provided crucial financial…
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Violette Heymann 1910 Pastel on gray wove paper, 72 x 92 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Although he was known early in his career for works primarily in black and white, such as charcoal drawings and lithographs,…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune femme au divan (Girl on a Divan) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 61 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London The artist’s grandson Denis Rouart writes (9 October 1969): ‘This painting was sold by my mother direct to Vollard…