Guérard-Gonzalès, Jeanne (1852-1924) Portrait de Eva Gonzalès à Dieppe (Portrait of Eva Gonzalès in Dieppe) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Private collection Born to an artistic and literary family, Jeanne Guérard-Gonzalès was the daughter of Emmanuel Gonzalès,…
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Meditazione sulla passione (The Meditation on the Passion) c.1490 Oil and tempera on wood, 66.5 × 84.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This remarkable picture is a meditation on death and resurrection. Christ’s dead body is displayed…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) An Egyptian in a Doorway 1865 Oil on wood, 55.9 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In the mid-1860s, Alma-Tadema painted a number of subjects set in ancient Egypt, in which convincing archaeological precision and uncanny…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Les murmures de l’Amour (Whisperings of Love) 1889 Oil on canvas, 203.2 x 138.43 x 17.78 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Cristo benedicente (Christ Blessing) c.1510 Oil on masonite, 58.1 x 46.51 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Christ holds his crystal orb, representing the celestial and earthly sphere over which he is the savior, in Latin the…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sacra Conversazione (Holy Conversation) c.1560–1570 Oil on canvas, 122.87 x 148.91 x 8.89 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di un uomo barbuto (Portrait of a Bearded Man) c.1540 Oil on canvas, 97.79 x 85.09 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans The tight space between the blue curtain, cast shadow of the green wall and…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Ragazzo con un libro (Boy Holding a Book, Portrait of Lorenzo Tiepolo) c.1747–1750 Oil on canvas, 48.26 x 39.05 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Couturière à la fenêtre (Seamstress at Window) c.1908–1910 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 54.61 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) At the Piano 1902, 1908 Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 66.4 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati