Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) La Liseuse (Young Girl Reading) c.1769 Oil on canvas, 81.1 x 64.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the lap up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a goldenrod-yellow dress, sits reading a small book,…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) San Ambrosio (Saint Ambrose) c.1796–1799 Oil on canvas, 190 x 113 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This work belongs to a series depicting Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory, key figures of early Catholicism. Saint Ambrose (about…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) A Young Woman as a Shepherdess s.d. Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 66.7 x 50.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Inscribed (lower right): Rembrandt f. / 1632. Like many of Rembrandt’s other pupils, Govert Flinck…
Goya, Francisco (1746-1828) Francisco Cabarrús 1788 Oil on canvas, 210 x 127 cm Banco de España, Madrid See also: • Cabarrús, François (1752-1810)
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Frances, Countess of Dartmouth 1756 Oil on canvas, 127 x 102 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The present portrait of Frances, Countess of Dartmouth was acquired for the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1977 from the UK art market. As with…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Portrait d’une jeune dame (Portrait of a Young Lady) c.1770–1772 Oil on canvas, 63 x 53 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection It has always been felt that the age of Louis XV finds its most characteristic…
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) David Garrick 1770 Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 63.2 cm National Portrait Gallery, London See also: • Garrick, David (1717-1779)
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…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le torero mort (The Dead Toreador) probably 1864 Oil on canvas, 75.9 x 153.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington From a low perspective, we look at a man wearing black and white, lying on the ground…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ritratto di giovane donna (Portrait of a Young Woman) 1580s Oil on canvas, 68.9 x 57.2 cm Private collection