Tag: shadow

Concert au Casino de Deauville (1865)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Concert au Casino de Deauville (Concert at the Casino of Deauville) 1865 Oil on canvas, 41.7 x 73 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Deauville (France)

Le Service à thé (1872)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Service à thé (Still Life, Tea Service) 1872 Oil on canvas, 53.34 × 72.71 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Although he is primarily known for his landscapes, Claude Monet was also a prodigious still-life painter, especially during…

Retrato de un hombre, posible autorretrato (c.1635)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Retrato de un hombre, posible autorretrato (Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait) c.1635 Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The broken, flickering outlines that keep the surface and flesh alive in…

Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace (1885)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace 1885 Oil on canvas, 44.1 x 38.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work was made in Nuenen in late spring 1885, just after Van Gogh completed The Potato Eaters…

Madonna col Bambino (c.1508)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1508 Oil on wood, 45.7 x 55.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dating to about 1508, this devotional painting is one of Titian’s earliest and shows the artist experimenting with ways to…

Baigneuse dans les bois (1895)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Baigneuse dans les bois (Bather in the Woods) 1895 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In summer 1893 Pissarro wrote his son Lucien that he was planning a series of canvases of nude…

The Annunciation (1480-1489)

Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) The Annunciation 1480–1489 Oil on panel, transferred to canvas, 76.5 x 54.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Memling modeled this Annunciation on the left wing of Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Columba Altarpiece (now in Munich), but…

Dressing for the Carnival (1877)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Dressing for the Carnival 1877 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this painting Homer evoked the dislocation and endurance of African American culture that is a legacy of slavery—specifically the Jonkonnu…

La Diseuse de bonne aventure (probably 1630s)

La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Diseuse de bonne aventure (The Fortune-Teller) probably 1630s Oil on canvas, 101.9 x 123.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Darting eyes and busy hands create a captivating narrative between otherwise staid figures, each…

La Madeleine aux deux flammes (c.1640)

La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) La Madeleine aux deux flammes (The Penitent Magdalen with two flames) c.1640 Oil on canvas, 133.4 x 102.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York With its extreme contrasts of candlelight and shadow, pared-down geometry, and meditative…