Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme prenant du chocolat (Cup of Chocolate) c.1912 Oil on canvas, 54.1 x 65.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Renoir painted this canvas years after he had moved away from impressionism, when he was living in the rural countryside of…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Ophelia 1851–1852 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 111.8 cm Tate Britain, London The scene depicted is from Shakespeare‘s Hamlet, Act IV, Scene vii. See also: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)
Gonzalès, Eva (1849-1883) Le bouquet de violettes (The Bouquet of Violets) c.1877–1878 Pastel on wove paper, 25.1 x 19.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gonzalès’s sister Jeanne, who was also an artist, probably posed for this scene. Women in the…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Santi Girolamo e Giovanni Battista (Saints Jerome and John the Baptist) c.1428–1429 Egg tempera on poplar, 125 x 58.9 cm National Gallery, London Saint Jerome, wearing his red cardinal’s hat, and Saint John the Baptist stand side by side…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Harmonie en violet (Harmony in Violet) 1923 Oil on canvas, 27.6 x 35.4 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Bouquet de violettes dans un vase (Bouquet of Violets in a Vase) 1882 Oil on panel, 24.13 × 18.73 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This delightful, subtle still life was painted when the artist was…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ritratto di giovane, Ritratto Giustiniani (Portrait of a Youth) early 16th century Oil on canvas, 59.2 x 47 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: V V Until 1884, the Portrait of a Young Man was found in the…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Berthe Morisot au bouquet de violettes (Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets) 1872 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 40.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Manet was profoundly marked by the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune, throughout which he…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Flora c.1517 Oil on canvas, 79.7 x 63.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze A young woman emerges from the brown background of the painting, holding out a bouquet of spring flowers, consisting of violets, rosebuds and jasmine. She is dressed…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot, Young Lady in 1866) 1866 Oil on canvas, 185.1 x 128.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet’s model, Victorine Meurent, had recently posed as the brazen nudes in…