Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Strawberry Tea Set 1912 Oil on canvas, 93.19 x 96.36 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA Around 1910 Hassam began depicting single female figures set in comfortable domestic interiors. The critic Royal Cortissoz referred to these paintings…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Le peintre et sa famille (The Painter and his Family) c.1939 Oil on canvas, 176.5 x 123.8 cm Tate Britain, London This symbolic painting represents the life of an artist. It is an invented scene. Despite usually working…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Scène de plage (Beach Scene) c.1865–1867 Oil on panel, 34.7 x 57.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland On a beach where a strong breeze moves off the water from left to right, figures of French women,…
Guercino (1591-1666) La vergine con san Pietro piangente (St Peter Weeping before the Virgin) 1647 Oil on canvas, 122 x 159 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Guercino (1591-1666) Cristo risorto appare alla madre (The Resurrected Christ Appears to the Virgin) 1629 Oil on canvas, 260 x 179.5 cm Civica Pinacoteca Il Guercino, Cento Wrapped in a metallic-colored drapery, beautiful and solemn in his gait, with the flag…
Guercino (1591-1666) Amnon e Tamar (Amnon and Tamar) 1649–1650 Oil on canvas, 123 x 158.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the thighs up, a light-skinned man and woman gesture dramatically, partially covered only by colorful lengths of…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Angelo con il titolo della croce (Angel with the Superscription) c.1667–1668 Terracotta, 28.9 x 17.1 x 13.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Aalto, Alvar (1898-1976) Standing Lamp from Woodberry Poetry Room 1948 Wood, metal, and electrical components, 189.5 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) A Grecian Flower Market (A Flower Stall) 1880 Oil on canvas, 57.8 x 79.3 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne