Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Nature morte aux pêches et aux raisins (Still Life with Peaches and Grapes) 1896 Oil on canvas, 29 × 42 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Nature morte aux pêches et aux raisins (1896)
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Le lac de Terni, Souvenir d’Italie (1861)
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Le lac de Terni, Souvenir d’Italie (The Moored Boatman: Souvenir of an Italian Lake) 1861 Oil on canvas, 60.96 × 90.17 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Terni (Italia)
La Seine à Paris (1883)
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La Seine à Paris (The Seine River in Paris) 1883 Oil on canvas, 35.56 × 27.94 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas See also: • Paris (France)
Le Service à thé (1872)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Service à thé (Still Life, Tea Service) 1872 Oil on canvas, 53.34 × 72.71 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Although he is primarily known for his landscapes, Claude Monet was also a prodigious still-life painter, especially during…
Baigneuse dans les bois (1895)
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Baigneuse dans les bois (Bather in the Woods) 1895 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In summer 1893 Pissarro wrote his son Lucien that he was planning a series of canvases of nude…
The Annunciation (1480-1489)
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) The Annunciation 1480–1489 Oil on panel, transferred to canvas, 76.5 x 54.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Memling modeled this Annunciation on the left wing of Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Columba Altarpiece (now in Munich), but…
Dressing for the Carnival (1877)
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Dressing for the Carnival 1877 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this painting Homer evoked the dislocation and endurance of African American culture that is a legacy of slavery—specifically the Jonkonnu…
La Diseuse de bonne aventure (probably 1630s)
La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Diseuse de bonne aventure (The Fortune-Teller) probably 1630s Oil on canvas, 101.9 x 123.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Darting eyes and busy hands create a captivating narrative between otherwise staid figures, each…
Giovane donna col violino (c.1612)
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Giovane donna col violino (Young Woman with a Violin) c.1612 Oil on canvas, 83.5 × 97.8 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit This image of a young woman playing the violin has traditionally been interpreted as a personification of…
Cosimo de’ Medici in armatura (c.1545)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Cosimo de’ Medici in armatura (Cosimo de’ Medici in armour) c.1545 Oil on panel, 76.5 x 59 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Bronzino’s portraits are undoubtedly among his most important works. His most significant examples date from the 1540s onwards, but…