De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Queen Eleanor and the Fair Rosamund Probably 1901–1902 Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 66.7 cm De Morgan Collection Rosamund was the mistress of Henry II, who built a house for her at Woodstock in Oxfordshire. Legends say…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le Colin-Maillard (Blind Man’s Buff) c.1750–1752 Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 91.4 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo In the 18th century the game of blind man’s buff (or bluff) became the symbolic arena for courtship, chance, and the…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) Santa Cecilia tra i santi Valeriano e Tiburzio con un donatore (Saint Cecilia between Saint Valerian and Saint Tiburtius with a Donor) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 52 x 44.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The present panel was in…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Danse à la campagne (Dance in the countryside) 1883 Oil on canvas, 180.3 x 90 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Renoir was fond of dance scenes. These two paintings were designed as pendants: they are of the same format and…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita 1890 Oil on canvas, 229 x 140 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Sargent may have first encountered the Spanish dancer known as La Carmencita (1868-1910) at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1890, she took New…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita c.1890 Drawing, 34.6 x 22.6 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris After the painting ‘La Carmencita‘ exhibited by the artist at the Salon of 1890. Donated by the artist to the Luxembourg Museum in 1892, entered…
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Not a Shoe 1950 Galvanized plaster, 7 x 5.1 × 2.5 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Father’s Leave-taking 1879 Etching, 18.9 x 25.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Of the three founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Rossetti, Hunt, and Millais), William Holman Hunt was the most dedicated to working directly…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The golden prime of good Haroun Alraschid 1863 Watercolour on vellum, 10.2 x 12.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Madonna col Bambino e l’Arcangelo Gabriele (Virgin and Child with the Archangel Gabriel and an Unidentified Saint) s.d. Oil on wood panel, 88.5 x 56 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
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