Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bohémien (The Bohemian) 1861–1862, date of rework: 1867 Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 55.3 x 2.5 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi The pose of this young man with a bent wrist recalls Renaissance painting and endows the work with…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Claude Monet lisant (Claude Monet reading) c.1873 Oil on canvas, 61.7 x 50 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Companion: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Camille Monet c.1873 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Compare: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Claude Monet, Le Liseur 1872 National Gallery…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Camille Monet c.1873 Oil on canvas, 58 x 48.5 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Pierre Auguste Renoir is certainly the artist who most often portrayed Claude Monet and his wife Camille Doncieux. The ten or so paintings he dedicated…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) A Souvenir of Velazquez 1868 Oil on canvas, 102.7 x 82.4 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London The expressionistic brushwork and broad colouring of Millais‘s diploma work contrasts with the restrained naturalism of his earlier Pre-Raphaelite paintings. This…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto del pittore veneziano Giovanni Bellini (Portrait of the Venetian Painter Giovanni Bellini) 1511–1512 Oil on canvas, 80 x 66 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen According to the Italian artist and historiographer Giorgio Vasari’s (1511-1574) biography from 1568, Titian…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Alice c.1918 Oil on canvas, 78.5 x 39 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Modigliani worked almost exclusively with the human figure and is particularly well known for his portraits. When he painted this picture his characteristic style of…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Melancholy 1532 Oil on panel, 61 x 97 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The sixteenth-century artist Lucas Cranach has become very popular in recent years, prompting a steady succession of exhibitions featuring his mysterious images. SMK…
El Greco (1541-1614) Retrato de un hombre (Portrait of a Man) 1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 116 x 98 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The chalk holder on the armrest, accompanied by a book with white and red bookmarks, suggests that the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Rêveuse (The Dreamer) 1879 Oil on canvas, 51.1 x 61.9 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis This vibrant, colorful work depicts a young, unidentified model that Pierre Auguste Renoir painted at his studio in the Montmartre district…
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Portrait de Berthe Morisot (Portrait of Berthe Morisot) c.1876 Drypoint, 26.2 x 17.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam See also: • Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895)