Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Woman) c.1550 Oil on wood, 60 x 48.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo I de’Medici, the Duke of Florence. Though the woman cannot be definitively identified,…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Une vocation (A Calling) 1896 Oil on fabric, 104 x 71 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Seated on a stone step in the countryside, a young girl has realized that her calling in life is to be…
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Portrait de femme à la colombe (Portrait of a Woman with a Dove) 1932 Oil on canvas, 45.9 x 38.1 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Trois femmes aux ombrelles, Les trois grâces (Three women with parasols, The Three Graces) s.d. Oil on panel, 141.3 x 89.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Astruc, Zacharie (1833-1907) Honoré de Balzac 1882 Bronze, 24.2 x 14.3 x 9 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850)
Abbéma, Louise (1853-1927) Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt (Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt) 1921 Oil on canvas, 87 x 120 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)
Abbéma, Louise (1853-1927) Sarah Bernhardt 1875 Bronze, diameter 16,3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) La Robe Rose (The Pink Dress) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The fashionable portraitist Jacques-Emile Blanche witnessed this painting being made at the Villa Fodor, the family home of…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune femme assise sur un canapé (Young Woman Seated on a Sofa) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 80.6 × 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At about the time that Morisot depicted this model in her Paris…
Prins, Pierre-Ernest (1838-1913) Manet sur son lit de mort (Manet on His Deathbed) c.1883 Pastel, 32.4 × 46 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)