Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Samson and Delilah c.1609–1610 Oil on wood, 185 × 205 cm National Gallery, London Peter Paul Rubens’s Samson and Delilah portrays a tragedy of love and betrayal. According to the Old Testament, Samson, a Jewish hero blessed…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter c.1748 Oil on canvas, 92.1 × 70.5 cm National Gallery, London This is the earliest known self portrait in oil by Gainsborough, and the only known one of him with…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Il martirio e l’ultima comunione di Santa Lucia (The Martyrdom and Last Communion of Saint Lucy) 1585–1586 Oil on canvas, 139.7 x 173.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington While exposing her breast to the thrust of the dagger…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ritratto di una nobildonna e suo figlio (Portrait of a Noblewoman and her Son) 1574 Oil on panel, 110.5 x 87 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Gonzalès, Eva (1849-1883) Le bouquet de violettes (The Bouquet of Violets) c.1877–1878 Pastel on wove paper, 25.1 x 19.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gonzalès’s sister Jeanne, who was also an artist, probably posed for this scene. Women in the…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Personnages dans un intérieur: L’intimité (Figures in an Interior: Intimacy) 1896 Glue-based paint on canvas Petit Palais, Paris Personnages dans un intérieur: Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) La musique 1896 Petit Palais, Paris Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Le choix des livres 1896 Petit…
Gonzalès, Eva (1849-1883) Femme à l’éventail (Lady with a Fan) c.1869–1870 Pastel on paper affixed to board, 37.47 x 45.4 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) The Roses of Heliogabalus 1888 Oil on canvas, 132.7 × 214.4 cm Private collection
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Proposition embarrassante (Embarrasing Proposal) 1715–1716 Oil on canvas, 65 × 84.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Watteau was the first 18th-century French artist to create something totally new in his work, something previously unknown, in despite of the…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Boudeuse (The Capricious Girl) c.1718 Oil on canvas, 42 × 34 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg When Watteau was elected a member of the French Academy of Arts, a term was specially invented to describe the kind of…