Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Oil on copper, 26.7 x 35.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the “hell landscapes” of Jan Brueghel…
Blake, William (1757-1827) God Judging Adam c.1795 Relief etching, printed in color and finished with pen and ink and watercolor, 42.5 x 52.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A nude and aged Adam, newly aware of his own nakedness and…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La présentation de Jésus au Temple (The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1886–1894 Watercolor on paper, 22.2 x 15.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Forty days after the birth of Jesus, the Holy Family travels to Jerusalem…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Desdemona maudite par son père (Desdemona Cursed by her Father) c.1852 Oil on cradled panel, 40.6 x 32.1 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Othello et Desdémone 1847–1849 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa See…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les deux confrères, Avocats (The Two Colleagues, Lawyers) 1865–1870 Watercolor on paper, 25.4 × 19.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York The approximately four thousand lithographic caricatures that Honoré Daumier produced were widely circulated in nineteenth-century Paris, where they…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Jeunes filles de Sparte (Young Women of Sparta) 1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 74.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Along with 42.196, this painting of a pale, contemplative young woman dressed in garments that conjure past times…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère (The Bar at the Folies-Bergère) 1878 Watercolor on paper, 31.8 x 19.7 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Un bar aux Folies Bergère 1882 Courtauld Institute, London See also: • Folies Bergère | Paris (France)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Noce (The Wedding) 1905 Oil on canvas, 163 x 114 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris 1888 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 54.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Two plumes of white steam rise from an unseen boat on the river Seine, signs of modern life juxtaposed with the…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Venetian Bead Stringers 1880 or 1882 Oil on canvas, 66.99 x 78.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo John Singer Sargent was fond of making studies in watercolor or oil and often sketched the everyday scenes or…