Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Self Portrait aged 24 1639 Oil on oak, 65.8 × 54.4 cm National Gallery, London Rembrandt was an exacting teacher as well as a great artist – at least, he knew how to school the apprentices who came…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme faisant du crochet (Woman Crocheting) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 41 x 32.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia During the 1870s, alongside his ambitious modern life subjects such as Leaving the Conservatory (BF862), Renoir painted very many canvases of single…
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Danae e la pioggia d’oro (Danae and the Shower of Gold) 1621–1623 Oil on canvas, 161.5 × 227.1 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles This painting is part of a series of works executed by Gentileschi in 1622 for…
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Danae c.1623 Oil on canvas, 162 x 228.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The gauzy scarf draped over Danaë was a studio prop present in many of Orazio‘s paintings. Danaë’s father feared a prophecy that his grandson…
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Profile de femme avec vase de fleurs (Profile of a Woman with a Vase of Flowers) c.1895–1905 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 50.5 cm Tate Britain, London This medium-size oil painting by the French artist Odilon Redon depicts…
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Autoportrait au vase de fleurs (Self-portrait with a vase of flowers) 1897 Oil on canvas, 52 x 42 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ‘A nos amis de Hollande‘ (to our friends in the Netherlands), Bernard wrote at the top left.…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le foulard rouge (The Red Kerchief) c.1868–1873 Oil on fabric, 99 x 79.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This painting depicts Monet‘s first wife, Camille, outside on a snowy day passing by the French doors of their…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Ambroise Vollard au foulard rouge (Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf) c.1899 Oil on canvas, 30 cm × 25 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Vollard, Ambroise (1866-1939)