Tag: portrait

L’Amazone (1923)

Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) L’Amazone (The Amazon) 1923 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 65.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Femme assise (1894)

La Gandara, Antonio de (1861-1917) Femme assise (Seated Woman) 1894 Lithograph, 26 × 12 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Eugenia Primavesi (1913-1914)

Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Eugenia Primavesi 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 140 x 84 cm Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota See also: • Primavesi, Eugenia (1874-1962)

Mäda Primavesi (1912-1913)

Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Mäda Primavesi 1912–1913 Oil on canvas, 149.9 x 110.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mäda Primavesi’s expression and posture convey a remarkable degree of confidence for a nine-year-old girl, even one who was, by her own…

Masque mortuaire de Modigliani (c.1920)

Kisling, Moïse (1891-1953) Masque mortuaire de Modigliani (Death Mask of Modigliani) c.1920 Bronze, 21.6 × 14 × 12.1 cm, 1.8 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920)

Dame au chien (c.1769)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Dame au chien (A Woman with a Dog) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting belongs to a celebrated group of Fragonards known as the fantasy figures. The canvas…

Ritratto di un prelato (c.1580)

Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Ritratto di un prelato (Portrait of a Prelate) c.1580 Oil on copper, diameter 14 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The daughter of a leading painter in Bologna, Lavinia Fontana became the most famous woman artist of…

Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap (1645)

Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap 1645 Oil on wood, 60.3 x 52.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Flinck studied as a pupil in Rembrandt’s studio and, according to one early biographer, had so internalized his…

A Young Woman as a Shepherdess

Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) A Young Woman as a Shepherdess s.d. Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 66.7 x 50.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Inscribed (lower right): Rembrandt f. / 1632.

La Morte di Cleopatra (c.1645-1655)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) c.1645–1655 Oil on canvas, 95 × 75 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The subject, from Plutarch’s Lives (1st century A.D.), is Cleopatra’s suicide by an asp bite following the…