Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Girl 1931 Ancaster stone, 86.5 x 60 x 43.3 cm (including base and wooden board) Tate Britain, London From the mid-1920s Moore had advocated the abolition of the ‘Greek ideal’ in sculpture in favour of non-European sources, which…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) The Mocking of Christ 1628–1630 Oil on canvas, 112 x 93 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton The most brilliant of Peter Paul Rubens’s assistants, Van Dyck left Antwerp to pursue his career in London and Genoa.…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Le polisseur de marbre (The Marble Polisher) 1882–1887 Oil on canvas, 65.5 × 81.3 × 1.9 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Toulouse-Lautrec probably painted this work while studying in the Parisian atelier of the popular painter…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) Head of a girl s.d. Black chalk, 33.9 x 26.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) La Danaïde (Danaid) 1880s, carved 1903–1904 Marble, 23 x 40 x 26 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton The Danaids of Greek mythology were the fifty daughters of Danaus; married to a group of brothers, they murdered their…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le fils prodigue (The Prodigal Son) 1879 Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 71.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Compare: Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le fils prodigue c.1879 National Gallery of Art, Washington Puvis de Chavannes,…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Zuffa di dei marini (Battle of the Sea Gods) c.1470–1475 Engraving, 30.5 x 43.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This engraving by Mantegna, court painter to the Gonzaga family in Mantua, manifests the revival of classical antiquity…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Statue dite “Bacchus Richelieu” (The so-called “Bacchus Richelieu”) 1793 Charcoal with stumping slightly accented with black chalk, 70 × 53 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Ingres‘s early academic training in Toulouse is reflected in this…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nu dans un paysage (Nude in a Landscape) c.1887 Oil on canvas, 21 x 31.7 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Satyre et nymphe (Satyr and Nymph) 1817 Black chalk with brown wash and white gouache, 22.2 x 18.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton