Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Retrato de Fernando VII (Portrait of Ferdinand VII) c.1814–1815 Oil on canvas, 84 x 63.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This portrait of Ferdinand VII entered the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1935 and appeared in its catalogues from 1937.…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Retrato de Asensio Julià (Portrait of Asensio Julià) c.1798 Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 41 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The inscription in the bottom left corner of the painting reads: Goya to his friend Asensi. This dedication and…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Asensio Julià (Portrait of Asensio Julià, painter and disciple of Goya) 1814 Oil on canvas, 73 x 57.8 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Julià, Asensio (1753-1832)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Sarah Buxton c.1776–1777 Oil on canvas, 110 x 87 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with Joshua Reynolds Thomas Gainsborough was one of the great 18th-century British portraitists. A certain rivalry existed between the two painters, which…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Portrait d’une jeune dame (Portrait of a Young Lady) c.1770–1772 Oil on canvas, 63 x 53 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection It has always been felt that the age of Louis XV finds its most characteristic…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Portrait of a Man 1640 Oil on panel, 67.1 x 55.1 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Son of a cloth merchant, Govert Flinck began his training in the studio of the painter and preacher Lambert Jacobsz. in Leeuwarden, where…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of the Emperor Charles V 1533 Oil on panel, 51.2 x 36 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the most important artists of the German Renaissance together with Albrecht Dürer.…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Homme assis (Seated Man) 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 54.6 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This canvas is one of a set of plein-air paintings produced by Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence towards the end of his life. In it,…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Bergère nue couchée (Reclining Nude Shepherdess) 1891 Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 86.4 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen In the spring and summer of 1890 -and again in 1891– Berthe Morisot, with her husband Eugène Manet…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Le Miroir Psyché (The Psyche mirror) 1876 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Berthe Morisot was closely associated with French Impressionism and actively participated in all the group’s exhibitions. She maintained close and creative…