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Jean dessinant (1901)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jean dessinant (The Artist’s Son, Jean, Drawing) 1901 Oil on canvas, 45.09 × 54.61 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond The simplified palette of this portrait of Renoir’s second son, Jean, is limited to a range of…

Bacco e Arianna (1520-1523)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Bacco e Arianna (Bacchus and Ariadne) 1520–1523 Oil on canvas, 176.5 x 191 cm National Gallery, London Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has…

Green Park, London (1870 or 1871)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Green Park, London 1870 or 1871 Oil on canvas, 34.3 × 72.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Detail of Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington, and his equestrian statue. See also: • London (England) | Wellington…

La Brioche (1870)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Brioche (The Brioche) 1870 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet reportedly called still life the “touchstone of the painter.” From 1862 to 1870 he executed several large-scale tabletop scenes…

Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbre (1944)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbre (Lunch on the Grass) 1944 Oil on canvas, 68 x 150 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Scientific analysis of this painting shows that the black background was added last. A frightening fish isn’t…

Le jardin de la famille Rousseau (1885)

Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le jardin de la famille Rousseau (The Garden of the Rousseau Family) 1885 Oil on fabric, 75.5 x 61 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland James Ensor painted in a wide variety of styles and techniques, his subjects…

Arm of Eve (1507)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Arm of Eve 1507 Point of brush and gray and black wash, brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache, 34.4 x 26.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The blue paper that Dürer used to…