Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1517–1518 Oil on linen, 72.4 x 57.2 cm National Gallery, London We have interrupted a young man reading; he turns to look over his shoulder at us. The unguarded look…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Le compositeur Cherubini et la Muse de la poésie lyrique (The composer Cherubini and the Muse of lyric poetry) 1842 Oil on canvas, 105 x 94 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Cherubini seated, elbow resting on a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Guitariste espagnol (The Spanish Guitarist) 1894 Oil on canvas, 65.4 × 54.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Leconte de Lisle c.1840–1841 Oil on canvas, 117 x 81 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Leconte de Lisle, Charles (1818-1894)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Piccola macelleria (The Butcher’s Shop) c.1582 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 71 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Around the time that he painted The Butcher’s Shop, in about 1582, Annibale Carracci joined his older cousin Ludovico and…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Ragazzo che beve (Boy Drinking) 1582–1583 Oil on canvas, 55.8 x 43.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Together with his brother Agostino and cousin Lodovico, Annibale Carracci introduced artistic reforms in Italy based on close observation of…
Siqueiros, David Alfaro (1896-1974) Autorretrato (Self-Portrait) 1948 Oil on hardboard, 120.7 x 90.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish) 1878 Oil on canvas, 78.7 × 122.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington En route pour la pêche depicts a scene in the quiet fishing village of Cancale,…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Baigneurs, étude pour “Une baignade à Asnières” (Bathers, Study for “Bathers at Asnières”) 1883–1884 Oil on wood National Gallery of Art, Washington A grassy riverbank cuts across the lower left corner of this painting, in front of a river…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) 1880 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Among Gustave Caillebotte’s most celebrated works are his views of modern Paris seen from balconies and terraces, a theme…