Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La costurera (The Needlewoman) c.1640–1650 Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Diego Velázquez ranks among the greatest masters of seventeenth-century Europe. By 1623, the twenty-four-year-old artist was established as court painter to…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Baigneurs, étude pour “Une baignade à Asnières” (Bathers, Study for “Bathers at Asnières”) 1883–1884 Oil on wood National Gallery of Art, Washington A grassy riverbank cuts across the lower left corner of this painting, in front of a river…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Deux femmes causant au bord de la mer, Saint Thomas (Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas) 1856 Oil on canvas, 27.7 x 41 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • St Thomas (US Virgin Islands)
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Les joueurs de cartes (The Card Players) 1892–1896 Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Compare: Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Joueurs de cartes 1890–1892 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Le Berceau (The cradle) 1872 Oil on canvas, 56 x 46.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Morisot, Edma (1839-1921)
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus c.1670 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 113.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Calypso, reclining on her bed, looks at us with the same charming smile she used on Odysseus. The…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Antiochus et Stratonice (Antiochus and Stratonice) c.1838 Oil on linen, 48.1 x 63.9 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Struck by a mysterious illness, Antiochus lies in bed near death. His grieving father, who has recently…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Il sacrificio di Isacco (The Sacrifice of Isaac) 1750s Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 75.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This series of paintings predominantly tells the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac, and each of…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Appel (The Call) 1902 Oil on fabric, 131.3 x 89.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Although known as one of the founders of modern art, Gauguin found inspiration in ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art. The woman…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te raau rahi (The Large Tree) 1891 Oil on fabric, 74 x 92.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gauguin positions four women in a friezelike sequence seeking shelter under the dark green leaves of a large tree…