Tag: portrait

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…

Puvis de Chavannes (1876)

Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Puvis de Chavannes 1876 Etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898)

Le Troubadour (1868-1873)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Le Troubadour (The Troubadour) 1868–1873 Oil on fabric, 83.6 x 56.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Daumier was called the “Michelangelo of caricature” and especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.…

Anna Zborowska (1917)

Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Anna Zborowska 1917 Oil on canvas, 130.2 x 81.3 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York See also: • Anna Zborowska (1885-1978)

Paul Cézanne (1874)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Paul Cézanne 1874 Etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Compare: Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Portrait de Cézanne 1874 National Gallery, London     See also: • Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906)

Paul Cézanne (1902)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Paul Cézanne 1902 Lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906)

Portrait d’homme (1880)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) 1880 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Among Gustave Caillebotte’s most celebrated works are his views of modern Paris seen from balconies and terraces, a theme…