Tag: red

Le Rouge et le Noir (1954)

The Red and the Black Director: Claude Autant-Lara Producer: Henry Deutschmeister, Gianni Hecht Lucari Screenplay: Jean Aurenche, Claude Autant-Lara, Pierre Bost Based on: Le Rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black) by Stendhal Genre: Drama Music: René Cloërec…

Virgen con el Niño (1670s)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Virgen con el Niño (Virgin and Child) 1670s Oil on canvas, 165.7 x 109.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Like Zurbarán and Velázquez, Murillo was trained in Seville, where he spent his whole career. Often referred…

Alice Butt (c.1895)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Alice Butt c.1895 Oil on canvas, 51.7 x 38.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Little is known about this painting’s subject, whom Whistler identified as “a little child called ‘Alice Butt‘—charming—quite Italian in type.” Set…

The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin (1434-1435)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin c.1434–1435 Oil on panel, 66 x 62 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted for Nicolas Rolin (around 1376/80-1462), chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy Philippe the Good, to adorn the personal chapel (Saint-Sébastien…

The Annunciation (c.1434-1436)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) The Annunciation c.1434–1436 Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 90.2 x 34.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington The Annunciation described by Saint Luke is interpreted in terms of actuality in this painting, which was probably once…

Portrait of a Man, Léal Souvenir (1432)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Portrait of a Man (Léal Souvenir) 1432 Oil on oak, 33.3 x 18.9 cm National Gallery, London This small portrait is puzzling in many ways. We don‘t know who this man was or why he is holding…