Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Self-Portrait with Splayed Fingers (Selbstdarstellung mit gespreizten Fingern) 1911 Pencil and gouache, heightened with white, on paper, 28 x 52.5 cm Leopold Museum, Vienna
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Orion aveugle à la recherche du soleil levant (Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun) 1658 Oil on canvas, 119.1 x 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Classical myth provided Poussin with a pretext for one…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Raffaello e la figlia del fornaio (Raphael and the Baker’s Daughter) 1846 Oil on canvas, 35.56 x 27.3 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Raphaël et la Fornarina 1814 Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA…
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) Pandore (Pandora) c.1914 Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In classical mythology, Pandora was a supremely beautiful woman created by the gods and sent to Earth to live among mortals. Redon…
Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Femme penchée en avant (Woman Bending Forward) c.1920 Black and colored chalk, 16.3 x 14.3 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune fille en décolleté, la fleur aux cheveux (Young girl in a low cut dress with a flower in her hair) 1893 Oil on canvas, 70 x 51.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Magdalena penitente (Penitent Magdalene) c.1650–1665 Oil on canvas, 46.67 x 46.36 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis