Tag: scene

Arabes en voyage (1855)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Arabes en voyage (Arabs Traveling) 1855 Oil on canvas, 54.1 x 65.1 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Deposizione di Cristo (c.1520)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione di Cristo (The Entombment of Christ) c.1520 Oil on canvas, 148 x 212 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Deposizione nel sepolcro 1559 Museo del Prado, Madrid     Copies: Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Copie d’après Le Titien c.1864 Rhode Island…

Femme à la brouette (c.1882)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Femme à la brouette (Woman with a Wheelbarrow) c.1882 Pastel over drypoint on paper, 25.4 x 18.1 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Sur la plage de Boulogne (1868)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Sur la plage de Boulogne (On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer) 1868 Oil on canvas, 32.39 × 66.04 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond As early as 1863, Manet’s submissions to the Salon were either rejected by the jury…

Les Grandes Baigneuses (c.1894-1905)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Les Grandes Baigneuses (Bathers) c.1894–1905 Oil on canvas, 127.2 x 196.1 cm National Gallery, London Around 200 of Cézanne’s works depict male and female nude bathers, either singly or in groups, in a landscape. The earliest dates from…

La mort de Sardanapale (1844)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) 1844 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.6 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia The subject of this painting was inspired by Lord Byron‘s dramatic poem of 1821 about the life of an…

Liberación del peón (1931)

Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Liberación del peón (Liberation of the Peon) 1931 Fresco on cement, 185.4 × 239.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Diego Rivera’s Liberation of the Peon makes visible the cruel and exploitative Mexican peonage system, which kept agricultural workers…

A Scholar in His Study (c.1652)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Scholar in His Study (‘Faust’) c.1652 Etching, engraving and drypoint, 20.9 x 16 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Compare: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Faust c.1652 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee    

A Balcony in Seville (1873)

Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) A Balcony in Seville 1873 Oil on canvas, 101.7 × 82.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia After her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Mary Cassatt traveled to Europe in 1866 to complete…