Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1550s Oil on canvas, 112.7 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of Tintoretto’s finest formal portraits, this painting depicts an unknown sitter now believed to be a…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritratto di giovane nobile (Portrait of a young nobleman) 1551 Oil on canvas, 138.4 x 106.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This impressive and engaging portrait of a young nobleman, possibly a member of the…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Tête de saint Jean l’Evangéliste (Head of Saint John the Evangelist) s.d. Oil on canvas, laid down on wood, 39.4 x 27 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is a study for an…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Ulysses 1827 Oil on canvas on wood, 25.1 x 19.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Santa Lucía (Saint Lucy) c.1625–1630 Oil on canvas, 104.14 × 77 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Few images of saints show women as gorgeously attired as Francisco de Zurbarán‘s. His Saint Lucy portrays the young…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Amazone (Woman in a Riding Habit) c.1855–1859 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 89.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting of a horsewoman (in French, amazone) was first observed in Courbet’s studio in the late…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Enfant à l’épée (Boy with a Sword) 1861 Oil on canvas, 131.1 x 93.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet’s stepson, Léon Koëlla-Leenhoff, recalled that he had posed for this picture in 1861, when he…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Édouard Manet c.1873 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 78.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet undertook only six portraits of his wife, the Dutch pianist Suzanne Leenhoff, in the years after their marriage in…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) George Moore au café (George Moore at the Café) 1878 or 1879 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this unfinished portrait of 1878 or 1879, Manet depicts the Irish…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) George Moore 1879 Pastel on canvas, 55.2 x 35.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This pastel, executed in one sitting, depicts the Irish critic and novelist George Moore. He used it as the frontispiece for…