Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Pietà c.1460 Tempera on panel, 86 x 107 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The panel, dated to the years between 1465 and 1470, marks an evident emancipation of the artist from the influence of Andrea Mantegna, to…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Les Poseuses (The Models) 1886–1888 Oil on canvas, 200 x 249.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia In this scene set inside the artist’s studio, Seurat depicts models posing in front of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 (1884–86;…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Jeune femme se poudrant (Young Woman Powdering Herself) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 79.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In this particular painting, Young Woman Powdering Herself, the modulation of light and shadow on the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Baigneuse (The Bather) c.1880–1881 Chalk on paper mounted on board, 84.535 x 65.5 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This is among the most important surviving drawings by Renoir. It relates, without question, to the famous…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Portrait d’une femme coiffée d’un turban bleu (Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Turban) c.1827 Oil on canvas, 60.33 × 49.21 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In this portrait, Eugène Delacroix uses the familiar conventions…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Martirio di San Pietro (Martyrdom of St. Peter) 16th century Oil on canvas, 34.3 x 24 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Natività (Nativity) c.1585–1594 Oil on canvas, 111 x 80 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The Virgin, reclining on a hay mattress, contemplates the Child Jesus lying on a blue cloth. Saint Joseph, on the…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) El baño (The Bath) 1865 Oil on canvas, 102 x 126.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Currently, two nudes by Prilidiano Pueyrredón are known: El baño and La siesta (private collection), both of a…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Retrato de Manuelita Rosas, estudio (Portrait of Manuelita Rosas, study) 1851 Oil on canvas, 37.7 x 30.3 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires There are no surviving sketches by Prilidiano Pueyrredón, except for unfinished works…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Retrato de Manuelita Rosas (Portrait of Manuelita Rosas) 1851 Oil on canvas, 199 x 166 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Prilidiano Pueyrredón returned from Europe in 1851, after having left Buenos Aires in 1835.…