Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Portrait de Jean Cocteau (Portrait of Jean Cocteau) 1916 Pencil on paper, 42.1 26.3 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The now highly admired Modigliani died at the age of 35 in Paris from a combination of tuberculosis, alcohol, narcotics and…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Studio di un cranio (Study of a skull) c.1545 Chalk on paper, 13.5 x 17.2 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Danse à la campagne (Dance in the countryside) c.1883 Black pencil on paper, 24.5 x 12.3 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Signed lower left: ‘Renoir’. This is a study for the large painting at MM. Durand-Ruel, engraved…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Studio di un giovane cervo sdraiato (Study of a young deer lying down, in profile, to the right) s.d. Tempera on irregularly cut paper, 12.4 x 17.7 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Studio per Il Martirio di San Sebastiano (Study for “The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian” for the Augustinian monastery at Diessen, Germany) 1739 Oil on canvas, 51.7 x 31.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In 1739 a pair…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for “Venus Verticordia” c.1864 Pencil Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Étude d’Honoré de Balzac (Study of Honoré de Balzac) 1891–1892 Bronze, 52.7 x 39.4 x 32.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In 1891 Rodin was commissioned to create a monument honoring the celebrated French writer Honoré de…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Studio di una donna seduta (Studies of a Seated Female, Child’s Head, and Three Studies of a Baby) c.1507–1508 Metalpoint, 12 x 15.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This drawing is from Raphael’s “pink sketchbook,” comprised of ten…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Persée et Andromède (Perseus and Andromeda) c.1819 Oil on canvas, 19.7 × 16.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Ingres‘s vulnerable figure of Andromeda is the “classic” idealized figure study. The fact that she is being…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vêtements sur l’herbe (Clothes on the Grass) 1883 Oil on wood, 16.2 x 24.8 cm Tate Britain, London This is one of a series of small studies in oil on panel for Seurat‘s first large painting ‘Bathing at…