Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist’s Daughters c.1763–1764 Oil on canvas, 127.3 × 101.7 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester See also: • Gainsborough, Margaret (1751-1820) | Gainsborough, Mary (1750-1826)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Vallée d’Ornans (The Valley of Ornans) 1858 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 85.4 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Two disparate expanses of terrain – one infused with afternoon sunlight, the other in shadow – converge in…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Juliette Courbet 1860 Oil on canvas, 127 x 100.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Gustave Courbet took a modern approach to portraiture in this seemingly unfinished painting. He depicted his sister Juliette in a frank and…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La Rêveuse (The Dreamer) 1712–1714 Oil on panel, 23.2 × 17 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The traditional title of this small painting, The Dreamer, derives from an engraving made after it, which was intended for sale to…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering) 1718–1721 Oil on panel, 48.6 × 64.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) Assisted by Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695-1736) Jean Antoine Watteau developed the genre of painting known as fête…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) The Temptation of the Magdalene c.1616 Oil on panel, 126.2 × 96.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In this half-length biblical painting, an aged woman offering tempting jewels—possibly the proprietor of a brothel—and an angel bestowing spiritual…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) The Holy Family with Shepherds 1616 Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 106.7 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Working in Antwerp, the commercial center of the Spanish Netherlands, Jordaens catered to an international audience…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Red Hills with the Pedernal 1936 Pastel on paper mounted to wood-pulp board, 54.6 x 69.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York The Pedernal is a flat-topped mountain that commands the Ghost Ranch landscape and is visible for miles…