Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Scream (Der Schrei) probably 1910 Tempera and oil on cardboard, 83.5 × 66 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 5 things you should know about The Scream Written by: Ute Kuhleman Falck, curator at MUNCH It is one of the…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Scream (Der Schrei) 1893 Oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 91 x 73.5 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo Painted in 1893, Munch’s iconic Scream was donated to the National Gallery in 1910. In terms of its fame, this painting now rivals…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El aguador de Sevilla (The Waterseller of Seville) c.1623 Oil on canvas, 107.7 x 81.3 cm Wellington Museum, London This is one of the most famous early paintings by Velázquez, produced in his home town of Seville when…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Amor sacro e amor profano (Sacred and Profane Love) 1515–1516 Oil on canvas, 118 x 278 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This work was probably sold to Scipione Borghese in 1608 by Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati. A veritable interpretative enigma, critics…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La Duquesa de Alba (The Duchess of Alba) 1797 Oil on canvas, 210.3 x 149.3 cm Hispanic Society of America, New York Inscribed bottom center and left (in the soil): “Solo Goya / 1797” Francisco de Goya…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Périssoires (Canoes) 1878 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 108.5 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes The training of Caillebotte, a student of Bonnat, seemed so short to the critic Émile Porcheron that he accused him of “tortizing perspective”. But…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Partie de bateau, dit Canotier au chapeau haut de forme (Boating Party, or Canotier with the top hat) c.1877–1878 Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 116.7 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris « Partie de bateau » or « Canotier au…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Périssoires sur l’Yerres (Boating on the Yerres) 1877 Oil on canvas, 103.51 x 155.89 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Gustave Caillebotte associated with Monet and Degas as an art student and, beginning in the mid-1870s, became one of…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Le déjeuner (Luncheon) 1876 Oil on canvas, 52 x 75 cm Private collection
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) L’Yerres, effet de pluie (The Yerres, Effect of Rain) 1875 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 59.1 cm Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington