Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Three Figures: Pink and Grey 1868–1878 Oil on canvas, 139.1 x 185.4 cm Tate Britain, London This picture derives from one of six oil sketches that Whistler produced in 1868 as part of a plan for…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) & Studio La mort de Socrate (The Death of Socrates) after 1787 Oil on canvas, 133 x 196 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton David depicts Socrates about to drink hemlock rather than endure exile after being convicted…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) At the Window 1872 Oil on canvas, 57 × 40 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) The Magdalen Reading c.1435 Oil on mahogany, transferred from another panel, 62.2 × 54.4 cm National Gallery, London A young lady in an extravagant green dress sits on the floor, reading. Although she wears fifteenth-century clothing…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Bodegón (Kitchen Scene) 1618–1620 Oil on canvas, 55.9 × 104.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In this modest kitchen scene, a type known as a bodegón (from the Spanish for pantry), Diego Velázquez depicted a young African…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Couturière à la fenêtre (Seamstress at Window) c.1908–1910 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 54.61 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Sogno di Sant’Orsola (The Dream of Saint Ursula) c.1495 Oil on canvas, 273 x 567 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the fifth of nine paintings in the cycle of the Legend of St. Ursula (Storie di sant’Orsola).…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino e Maria Maddalena (Madonna and Child with Mary Magdalene) 1560s Oil on canvas, 98 x 82 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Santi Pietro, Marta, Maria Maddalena e Leonardo (Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen and Leonard) c.1515 Oil on canvas, 221.6 x 161.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Four saints, each appearing to be lost in thought, are shown…
Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear c.1856 Watercolour on paper, 13.7 x 13.7 cm Tate Britain, London Elizabeth Siddall began painting in 1852 and made over a hundred works in the following ten years. Her style and subject…