Tag: scene

Les Baigneuses (1854)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Les Baigneuses (Bathers) 1854 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 79.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford At the height of his career, Eugène Delacroix was challenged by a patron in 1854 to paint a scene of female bathers in a forest…

Les femmes d’Alger, d’après Delacroix (1954)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Les femmes d’Alger, d’après Delacroix (The Women of Algiers, after Delacroix) 1954 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 72.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Between December 1954 and February 1955, Picasso painted fifteen canvases inspired by Eugène Delacroix‘s famous painting of…

Arcadie (1860)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Arcadie/Idylle: Famille de l’Antiquité (Arcadia/Idyll: Family from Antiquity) 1860 Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 51.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Bouguereau, one of the most successful painters of the nineteenth century, was particularly admired in the United States. He…

Scène allégorique

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Scène allégorique (Allegorical Scene) s.d. Oil on canvas, 18.1 x 23.2 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

La plage de Trouville (1870)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1870 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Monet spent the summer of 1870 at Trouville, the popular French resort along the English Channel. This…

Job and His Daughters (1799-1800)

Blake, William (1757-1827) Job and His Daughters 1799–1800 Pen and tempera on canvas, 27.3 x 38.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington An old man with a long, white beard and flowing, white hair sits surrounded by three young women in…

The Last Supper (1799)

Blake, William (1757-1827) The Last Supper 1799 Tempera on canvas, 30.5 x 48.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A long, rectangular dining table is surrounded by thirteen people in this horizontal painting. The skin of all the people, some of…

Marte e Venere uniti dall’Amore (1570s)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Marte e Venere uniti dall’Amore (Mars and Venus United by Love) 1570s Oil on canvas, 205.7 x 161 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The love between Mars, the god of war, and Venus, the goddess of…