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Le simulacre transparent de l’image feinte (1938)

Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Le simulacre transparent de l’image feinte (The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image) 1938 Oil on canvas, 72.39 x 92.07 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1929, Salvador Dalí joined the artists of the Surrealist movement in…

View of Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) View of Auvers-sur-Oise 1890 Oil on canvas, 34 x 42.1 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)

Jean dessinant (1901)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jean dessinant (The Artist’s Son, Jean, Drawing) 1901 Oil on canvas, 45.09 × 54.61 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond The simplified palette of this portrait of Renoir’s second son, Jean, is limited to a range of…

Cristo cargando la cruz (c.1665-1675)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Cristo cargando la cruz (Christ Bearing the Cross) c.1665–1675 Oil on canvas, 154.3 × 210.8 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Murillo has transformed what is typically depicted as a crowded scene into a private encounter between the…

Green Park, London (1870 or 1871)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Green Park, London 1870 or 1871 Oil on canvas, 34.3 × 72.5 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Detail of Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington, and his equestrian statue. This small painting is one of two…

La Brioche (1870)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Brioche (The Brioche) 1870 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet reportedly called still life the “touchstone of the painter.” From 1862 to 1870 he executed several large-scale tabletop scenes…

The Betrayal of Christ (late 1650s)

Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) The Betrayal of Christ late 1650s Oil on canvas, 225.5 x 246.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland After the deaths of fellow Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens in 1640 and Anthony van Dyck in 1641, Jordaens became…