Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere che benda Amore (Venus Blindfolding Cupid) c.1560–1565 Oil on canvas, 118 x 185 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma In all likelihood, this painting entered the Borghese Collection in 1608, when it was given to Scipione Borghese by Cardinal Paolo Emilio…
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Visita della regina di Saba al re Salomone (The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon) 1599 Oil on canvas, 256 x 325 cm National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin In 1872, just eight years after first opening…
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Paysage avec Figures, Céret (Landscape with Figures, Céret) 1922 Oil on canvas, 73 x 54 cm High Museum of Art, Atlanta Chaïm Soutine painted this landscape in the town of Céret in the French Pyrenees mountains, along with about…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Calvaire et église de Nizon, près de Pont-Aven (Calvary and Church at Nizon, near Pont-Aven) c.1893 Oil on canvas, 39.4 cm x 47 cm High Museum of Art, Atlanta In 1879 Renoir spent the summer in the home of…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jardin en fleurs à Sainte-Adresse (Garden in Bloom in Sainte-Adresse) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Work recovered by the Allies in 1945, MNR 216; Deposited by the Musée d’Orsay, 2006. See also: • Sainte-Adresse (France)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Maisons à Gósol (Houses in Gósol) 1904–1908 Oil on canvas, 54 x 38.5 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen See also: • Gósol (España)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Portrait de Bazille (Portrait of Bazille) 1864 Oil on wood, 40.50 x 31.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Recent research has returned this beautiful painting to Monet, and dated it to 1864 when, staying in Honfleur, Monet and Bazille worked…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jeune femme assise devant la fenêtre, dit L’Eté (Young Woman Sitting in front of the Window, called Summer) 1879 Oil on canvas, 76 x 61 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier This portrait of an elegant young woman, as if buried…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Still life with five bottles 1884 Oil on canvas, 49.5 × 57.4 cm Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna The still life, which is limited to a few objects, is an impressive example of Vincent van Gogh‘s early paintings. We…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Garvagh / Madonna Aldobrandini (Garvagh Madonna or Aldobrandini) c.1510–1511 Oil on wood, 38.9 × 32.9 cm National Gallery, London This is one of several small and medium-sized Madonnas made by Raphael in the years immediately following his arrival in…