Tag: shadow

André Derain (1905)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) André Derain 1905 Oil on canvas, 39.4 x 28.9 cm Tate Britain, London A portrait of the painter André Derain (1880-1954), executed at Collioure in the summer of 1905 at the same time as the portrait of Matisse…

Portrait d’une jeune fille en noir (1913-1914)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Portrait d’une jeune fille en noir (Portrait of a Girl in Black) 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.3 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Under the influence of Cézanne, but also due to his friendship with Picasso and…

La conversione della Maddalena (c.1661-1662)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La conversione della Maddalena (The Conversion of Mary Magdalene) c.1661–1662 Oil on canvas, 229.2 x 265.4 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena In the seventeenth century, Guido Cagnacci was celebrated for his deeply sensual paintings of female saints and…

Morte di Cleopatra (after 1659)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) after 1659 Oil on canvas, 153 x 169 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at the bottom right of the armrest support: GVIDO CAGNAZZI The last queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, let herself…

Marée basse, Berck (1886)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Marée basse, Berck (Low Tide, Berck) 1886 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 61.3 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Known as a pleinairiste, Boudin was among the first artists to paint entire compositions, rather than just sketches, outdoors (en…

La Plage à Trouville (1888)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La Plage à Trouville (Beach at Trouville) 1888 Oil on panel, 14.3 x 23.8 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Boudin’s beach scenes provide a charming record of resort fashion through the decades. Here the wide crinolines of the…

La Plage à Trouville (1873)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La Plage à Trouville (Beach at Trouville) 1873 Oil on panel, 21 x 41.3 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Boudin was the great painter of Normandy’s beach resorts: the casinos and grand hotels of Trouville and Deauville that…