Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Harmonie en violet (Harmony in Violet) 1923 Oil on canvas, 27.6 x 35.4 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone
Harmonie en violet (1923)
Tag: reclining
Nu couché et domestique servant du thé (1888)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nu couché et domestique servant du thé (Reclining Nude and Servant Serving Tea) 1888 Oil on canvas, 81.4 x 57.3 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone
Femme allongée (1931)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme allongée (Reclining woman) 1931 Oil on canvas, 129.8 x 195 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Estate (c.1546-1548)
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Estate (Summer) c.1546–1548 Oil on canvas, 105.7 x 193 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work…
Venere e Cupido (c.1575-1580)
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Venere e Cupido (Venus and Cupid) c.1575–1580 Oil on wood, 143 x 226.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier The Mannerist painter Allori designed a complex representation of Venus which owes much to the powerful figures of Michelangelo. The…
Femme nue couchée (1883)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme nue couchée (Reclining Nude) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Nudes and the grand tradition of classical art preoccupied Renoir in the 1880s. In this painting, he paid…
Nu couché (1917)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Nu couché (Reclining Nude) 1917 Oil on canvas, 60.6 x 92.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Modigliani’s celebrated series of reclining nudes, begun in 1916, is influenced by Italian Renaissance representations of Venus and other idealized…
Naiade (1815-1823)
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Naiade (Naiad) model 1815–1817, carved 1820–1823 Marble, 80 x 190 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Naiade 1819–1824 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Naiade (1819-1824)
Canova, Antonio & studio (1757-1822) Naiade (Reclining Naiad) 1819–1824 Carrara marble, 88.9 × 190.5 × 82.6 cm, 1160.3 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is a variant of the Reclining Venus with Cupid, now in Buckingham Palace, which was…
Venus del Espejo (1647-1651)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Venus del Espejo (Venus at her Mirror, The Rokeby Venus) 1647–1651 Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 177 cm National Gallery, London This is the only surviving female nude painted by Velázquez. The subject was rare in seventeenth-century Spain,…