Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Preparatifs de Ballet, La Contre Basse (Preparations for the Ballet, The Contrabass) 1887 Oil on canvas, 37 x 87 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Preparatifs de Ballet, La Contre Basse (1887)
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La Toilette apres le bain (c.1888)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La Toilette apres le bain (The toilette after the bath) c.1888 Pastel on paper on cardboard, 66.5 x 78.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Estate (c.1546-1548)
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Estate (Summer) c.1546–1548 Oil on canvas, 105.7 x 193 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work…
Madonna delle stelle (c.1575-1585)
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Madonna delle stelle (The Madonna of the Stars) c.1575–1585 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 72.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This is one of a small group of loosely related paintings of the Madonna and Child…
San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (1586)
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (St. John the Baptist in the Desert) 1586 Oil on copper, 34.50 x 26 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Venere e Cupido (c.1575-1580)
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Venere e Cupido (Venus and Cupid) c.1575–1580 Oil on wood, 143 x 226.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier The Mannerist painter Allori designed a complex representation of Venus which owes much to the powerful figures of Michelangelo. The…
Ragazzo con la freccia (c.1505)
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ragazzo con la freccia (Boy with an Arrow) c.1505 Oil on poplar, 48 × 41.8 × 2.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This bust of an idealized young man with a rich mane of curls and an arrow in…
Les Amants (1928)
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Les Amants (The Lovers) 1928 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this unsettling image—the first in a series of four variations of Les Amants that Magritte painted in 1928—the…
Madame Pierre Gautreau (1897)
La Gandara, Antonio de (1861-1917) Madame Pierre Gautreau 1897 Oil on canvas, 213.36 x 91.44 cm Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston On loan from Blair Darnell, L2006.01 See also: • Avegno Gautreau, Virginie Amélie (1859-1915)
Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast (1882-1883)
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 32 x 41 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Madame Pierre Gautreau, born Virginie Avegno (1859–1915), was Madame X, the statuesque sitter in Sargent’s most notorious portrait…