Tag: standing

A Scholar in His Study (c.1652)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Scholar in His Study (‘Faust’) c.1652 Etching, engraving and drypoint, 20.9 x 16 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Compare: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Faust c.1652 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee    

A Balcony in Seville (1873)

Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) A Balcony in Seville 1873 Oil on canvas, 101.7 × 82.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia After her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Mary Cassatt traveled to Europe in 1866 to complete…

Il poeta e la sua musa (c.1925)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Il poeta e la sua musa (The Poet and His Muse) c.1925 Oil and tempera on canvas, 91.1 x 73.7 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Though many of his paintings predate the start of Surrealism, Giorgio de…

Studio di un uomo nudo, in piedi (c.1524)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Studio di un uomo nudo, in piedi (Study of a naked man, standing) c.1524 Black stone, on red chalk lines, traces of incision with a stylus, 38.5 x 24 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Project for one of the…

Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough (c.1778)

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough c.1778 Oil on canvas, 76.6 x 63.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This intimate portrait may have been painted to celebrate the 50th birthday of Thomas Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret (around 1728-1798). He portrayed her…

L’Espérance (1842)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’Espérance (Hope) 1842 Oil on canvas, 116.5 × 117 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition: half-length woman, arms and hands open, white sleeveless tunic under a green drape, face in profile turned to the right. (Louvre)…

La Foi (1842)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Foi (Faith) 1842 Oil on canvas, 120 × 110 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Circular composition. Woman with a 3/4 length, dressed in Greek style, diadem on her head, looking at the chalice, ostia, on her…

Esquisse pour l’Hommage à Delacroix (c.1863)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Esquisse pour l’Hommage à Delacroix (Sketch for the Homage to Delacroix) c.1863 Oil on canvas, 25.5 × 26 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     See also: • Delacroix,…

Portrait d’Édouard Manet (c.1874)

Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Portrait d’Édouard Manet (Portrait of Édouard Manet) c.1874 Black chalk on wove paper, 18.4 × 12.4 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)