Tag: portrait

La lecture (1873)

Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La lecture (Reading) 1873 Oil on fabric, 46 x 71.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Impressionists were mostly men with a few notable exceptions, including Berthe Morisot. While Morisot‘s work includes many of the hallmarks of…

Portrait de femme (1917-1918)

Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1917–1918 Oil on canvas, 65 x 48.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno, Italy, Modigliani studied briefly in Florence and Venice before moving…

Double portrait avec chapeau (c.1936-1937)

Maar, Dora (1907-1997) Double portrait avec chapeau (Double Portrait with Hat) c.1936–1937 Gelatin silver print, montage with handwork on negative, 29.8 x 23.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Maar sandwiched two negatives of the same model and painted the background and…

Soirée à la fenêtre (1884)

Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Soirée à la fenêtre (Evening at the Window) 1884 Etching and drypoint Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Alphonse Legros taught for nearly two decades as a professor of fine arts at the Slade School in London and was…

Terminus, the Device of Erasmus (c.1532)

Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Terminus, the Device of Erasmus c.1532 Oil on wood, 21.6 x 21.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466–1536), the celebrated Dutch humanist and scholar,…

San Ambrosio (c.1796-1799)

Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) San Ambrosio (Saint Ambrose) c.1796–1799 Oil on canvas, 190 x 113 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This work belongs to a series depicting Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory, key figures of early Catholicism. Saint Ambrose (about…

Garçon dans une cape bordée de rouge (1780s)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Garçon dans une cape bordée de rouge (A Boy in a Red-lined Cloak) 1780s Oil on wood, 20.8 x 16 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In the course of his long career, Fragonard produced more than 550…

Portrait of a Woman (1646)

Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Portrait of a Woman 1646 Oil on wood, 71.5 x 59.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Because of an inscription on the back, this painting was long considered a portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman, a prominent…