Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) c.1517 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 71 x 50 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Compare: Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) San Giovanni Battista c.1523 Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Toilette de Vénus (The Toilette of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 108.3 x 85.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boucher executed this painting for Madame de Pompadour, the powerful, official mistress of Louis XV and…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Femme au chat (Woman with a Cat) 1864 Oil on canvas, 78.3 x 57.2 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Giuditta e Oloferne (Judith and Holofernes) c.1554 Oil on panel, 108 x 79.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Danae c.1612 Oil on copper, 41.3 × 52.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ecce Homo (Christ Shown to the People) c.1570–1576 Oil on canvas, 109.2 x 94.8 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Chaim Soutine 1917 Oil on canvas, 91.7 x 59.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Born in 1884 to an aristocratic family in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani settled in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris in 1906 and began…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Paris c.1628 Oil on canvas, 96 x 84 cm Wallace Collection, London
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1620 Oil on canvas, 123.5 × 95.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Femme aux pigeons (Woman with Pigeons) c.1865 Oil on canvas, 79.7 x 60.6 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Though Gustave Courbet was best known for his early paintings of French peasants, in later decades he focused on scenes of animals,…