Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse (Lullaby or Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle) 1889 Oil on canvas, 111 x 91 x 9 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (F 507, JH 1669) Compare: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse 1888–1889 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Van…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse (Lullaby or Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 72.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (F 508, JH 1671) While in Arles, Van Gogh painted Augustine Roulin, the wife of postal…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse, portret van Madame Roulin (La Berceuse, Portrait of Madame Roulin) 1888–1889 Oil on canvas, 92 × 72.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F 504, JH 1665) She who rocks the cradle In Arles, Van Gogh befriended the…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse (Lullaby or Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.7 × 73.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (F 506, JH 1670) Vincent van Gogh saw in Augustine Roulin—along with her husband, Joseph, and…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ecce Homo (Christ Shown to the People) c.1570–1576 Oil on canvas, 109.2 x 94.8 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis By the glow of a blazing torchlight, Pontius Pilate, the Roman ruler of ancient Judea, presents Jesus to…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Cupid c.1606–1611 Oil on canvas, 137 x 111 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Rubens was the most outstanding of all Flemish painters, and a leading exponent of Baroque art. The Toilet of Venus is one of…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni 1489–1490 Mixed media on panel, 77 x 49 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This superb panel is a fine example of fifteenth-century Florentine portraiture. Artists of the time followed classical dictates: body proportions were idealised while…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Woman c.1648 Oil on canvas, 108 x 80 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Dated around 1648 and perhaps, according to Grimm, a work by Jan Hals, in comparison with the latter’s Portrait of a Lady,…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Portrait of a Married Couple c.1617–1618 Oil on canvas, 112 × 131 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) Madonna Durán 1435–1438 Oil on panel, 100 x 52 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The panel has been trimmed on all four sides but little of the painted surface can have been lost. It is made…