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…
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…
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…
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…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le Confessionnal (The Confessional) 1867 Watercolor on paper, 26.4 x 14.4 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Derain, André (1880-1954) Roses au picket bleu (Roses in blue jug) 1920s Oil on canvas, 45.6 × 41.7 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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…
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…
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…
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.…