Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) c.1888 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 46.7 x 38.1 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) The Artist Sketching 1922 Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 71.1 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Pink Spirea c.1922 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 25.4 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Harmony in Blue: The Duet c.1874 Oil on panel, 27.3 x 45.7 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
El Greco (1541-1614) Attributed El Apóstol San Andrés (Apostle Saint Andrew) c.1610–1614 Oil on canvas, 74.9 x 58.4 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
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…
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…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Il poeta e la sua musa (The Poet and His Muse) c.1925 Oil and tempera on canvas, 91.1 x 73.7 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Though many of his paintings predate the start of Surrealism, Giorgio de…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait de Madame Cézanne (Portrait of Madame Cézanne) 1885–1886 Oil on canvas, 61.9 × 51.1 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Hortense Fiquet—Cézanne’s mistress, mother of his son, Paul, and later his wife—was the artist’s most frequent model, appearing…