Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough holding a Theorbo c.1777 Oil on canvas, 90.2 × 69.9 cm National Gallery, London This unfinished portrait of Thomas Gainsborough’s youngest daughter, Margaret (1751–1820), playing a theorbo (a kind of lute) unites two particularly personal…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Margaret c.1772 Oil on canvas, 75.6 × 62.9 cm Tate Britain, London Gainsborough’s younger daughter, Margaret, was in her mid-twenties when her father painted this portrait. At the time she was still living with her elder…
Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) San Bartolomeo (Saint Bartholomew) c.1497 Tempera on wood panel, 59.6 x 51 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Flayed and crucified for spreading Christ’s word through Armenia and India, the apostle Bartholomew was represented horrifically, holding his own skin,…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Dans le jardin de Maurecourt (In the Garden at Maurecourt) 1884 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo As one critic wrote in 1880, “Berthe Morisot handles the palette and brush with a…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 Oil on canvas, 48.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Standing in the brilliant sunlight of midday, a young woman blows a metal horn to summon the farmhands in the nearby…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) At the Window 1872 Oil on canvas, 57 × 40 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Vue du Parc Montsouris, Le Kiosque (View of the Montsouris Park, The Kiosk) c.1908–1910 Oil on canvas, 65.7 x 79.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Here we see a group of people strolling through the Parc Montsouris, one of four…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Ragazza della famiglia Gradenigo con una colomba (A young girl of the Gradenigo family with a dove) c.1768–1770 Oil on canvas, 149.5 x 98.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Beatrice Bouvet (born c.1861) 1864 Oil on canvas, 91.9 x 73.2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The Salins industrialist Alfred Bouvet purchased two Courbet landscapes and commisioned this portrait of his daughter, then aged three. She is holding…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Scène de plage (Beach Scene) c.1869–1870 Oil (essence) on paper on canvas, 47.5 × 82.9 cm National Gallery, London A maid combs the hair of a girl who has been swimming; her bathing suit is stretched out on…