Tag: velvet

Raphaël et la Fornarina (1814)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Raphaël et la Fornarina (Raphael and the Fornarina) 1814 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 53.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Compare: Raffaello (1483-1520) La Fornarina c.1520 Palazzo Barberini, Roma     Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna della Seggiola 1513–1514 Galleria Palatina, Firenze…

Leisure Hours (1864)

Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Leisure Hours 1864 Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 118.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Anne and Marion Pender were the daughters of Sir John Pender, a wealthy textile merchant from Glasgow. The girls’ identical red velvet…

Jane Seymour (c.1536-1537)

Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Jane Seymour c.1536–1537 Oil on oak, 65.5 × 47 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Holbein became court painter to Henry VIII of England in 1536. Among the first of his paintings in the service of the King was…

Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap (1645)

Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap 1645 Oil on wood, 60.3 x 52.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Flinck studied as a pupil in Rembrandt’s studio and, according to one early biographer, had so internalized his…

Ritratto di Costanza Alidosi (c.1595)

Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Ritratto di Costanza Alidosi (Portrait of Costanza Alidosi) c.1595 Oil on canvas 157.48 x 119.39 cm National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Lavinia Fontana depicted the Bolognese noblewoman Costanza Alidosi seated in a sparsely, yet…

Frances, Countess of Dartmouth (1756)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Frances, Countess of Dartmouth 1756 Oil on canvas, 127 x 102 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The present portrait of Frances, Countess of Dartmouth was acquired for the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1977 from the UK art market. As with…

La Promenade (1875-1876)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Promenade (The Walk) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 170.2 x 108.3 cm The Frick Collection, New York A young woman shepherds a pair of identically dressed little sisters along the path of a well-maintained public park. All three…

Retrato de Manuelita Rosas (1851)

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Retrato de Manuelita Rosas (Portrait of Manuelita Rosas) 1851 Oil on canvas, 199 x 166 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Prilidiano Pueyrredón returned from Europe in 1851, after having left Buenos Aires in 1835.…