Tag: reflection

Portrait de Madame de Pompadour (1756)

Boucher, François (1703-1770) Portrait de Madame de Pompadour (Portrait of Madame Pompadour) 1756 Oil on canvas, 205 × 161 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Madame de Pompadour was the official mistress of King Louis XV of France. She gained great influence and also…

La Toilette de la mariée (1940)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Toilette de la mariée (Attirement of the Bride) 1940 Oil on canvas, 129.6 x 96.3 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Attirement of the Bride is an example of Max Ernst’s veristic…

Devant le miroir (1876)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Devant le miroir (Before the Mirror) 1876 Oil on canvas, 93 x 71.6 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York In 1865 Edouard Manet shocked Parisian audiences at the Salon with his painting Olympia (1863), an unabashed depiction of a prostitute…

Papa Gregorio XV (c.1622–1623)

Guercino (1591-1666) Papa Gregorio XV (Pope Gregory XV) c.1622–1623 Oil on canvas, 133.7 × 98.4 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino or simply Guercino, meaning “The Squinter”, a nickname referring to a congenital eye condition from which…

La morte di Cleopatra (1648)

Guercino (1591-1666) La morte di Cleopatra (Death of Cleopatra) 1648 Oil on canvas, 173 x 237 cm Palazzo Rosso, Genova This painting, in which Cleopatra is depicted in the act of taking her life, in order not to suffer the shame…

Bassin d’Argenteuil avec un seul voilier (1874)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Bassin d’Argenteuil avec un seul voilier (Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat) 1874 Oil on canvas, 55 x 65 cm National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin From 1871 to 1878, Monet lived in Argenteuil on the outskirts of Paris. During…