Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus c.1670 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 113.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Calypso, reclining on her bed, looks at us with the same charming smile she used on Odysseus. The…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) El tío Paquete c.1819–1820 Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The subject of this canvas can be identified from the inscription that was previously on the reverse and which read “El célebre ciego…
Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) El baño (The Bath) 1865 Oil on canvas, 102 x 126.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Enfant aux jouets, Gabrielle et Jean (Child with Toys, Gabrielle and the Artist’s Son, Jean) 1895–1896 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 65.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the waist up, a woman with…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Holy Family c.1633–1635 Oil on canvas, 183.5 x 123 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Rembrandt presents this touching gathering of the Holy Family in the carpenter’s workshop in a monumental genre painting with almost life-sized figures that has…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Gold Chain 1634 Oil on panel, 69.5 x 53 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume 1635 Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 97.5 cm National Gallery, London Saskia van Uylenburgh, the daughter of a burgomaster of Leeuwarden in Friesland, was 23 years old and had been married to…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Woman bathing in a Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels?) 1654 Oil on oak, 61.8 x 47 cm National Gallery, London Rembrandt’s painting, unique for him in its tender intimacy, shows a young woman almost up to her knees in…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg 1634 Oil on panel, 68.6 x 53.4 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Haesje van Cleyburg, the wife of a wealthy Rotterdam beer brewer, is fashionably yet extremely soberly dressed. She has not been made…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1470 Oil on wood, 27 x 20.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Trained in Naples in the Netherlandish technique of oil painting, Antonello set the standard for…