Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les débuts du modèle (The New model) c.1770 Oil on canvas, 50 x 63 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris Baron Portalis, one of the artist’s greatest connoisseurs, underlined the artist’s brilliant execution: ‘Imagine everything of the fairest, pinkest, and lightest…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Natività (The Nativity) c.1522 Fresco transferred to canvas, 254.5 × 131 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Pietro di Cristoforo Vanucci called Perugino (ca. 1450-1523) may have trained with Andrea Verrocchio and subsequently with Piero della Francesca in 1480. He…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Rue de village (Village Street) 1909–1910 Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 35.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sacra Famiglia con san Giovannino (The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist) early 1600s Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 95.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is the only private devotional painting of the Madonna…
Bacon, Francis (1909-1992) Study for ‘Portrait of Van Gogh IV’ 1957 Oil on canvas, 152.4 × 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London © Estate of Francis Bacon Bacon based this painting on a self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh which he knew only from…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Eugène Manet 1874 Oil on paper laid down on board, 63 × 79.5 cm Private collection See also: • Manet, Eugène (1833-1892)
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Incontro di Gioacchino e Anna fuori dalla Porta Aurea di Gerusalemme (Meeting of Joachim and Anne outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem) 1497 Tempera on panel, 112.5 x 124 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Filippino Lippi first studied…
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…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’artiste, Portrait de Marcellin Desboutin (The Artist, Portrait of Marcellin Desboutin) 1875 Oil on canvas, 195.5 x 131.5 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo See also: • Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Rencontre ou Bonjour Monsieur Courbet (The Meeting or Hello M. Courbet) 1854 Oil on canvas, 132.40 x 151 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Montpellier, painted by the artist for Alfred Bruyas (1821-1877), 1854; gift from Alfred Bruyas to the…