Tag: woman

Ritratto di dama (1520-1524)

Correggio (c.1489-1534) Ritratto di dama (Portrait of a Lady) 1520–1524 Oil on canvas, 103 × 87.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg A sensual version of Raphaelesque grace was produced by Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio, a painter who worked in Parma.…

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Giove e Io (c.1530)

Correggio (c.1489-1534) Giove e Io (Jupiter and Io) c.1530 Oil on canvas, 162 × 73.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Jupiter fell in love with Io, the beautiful daughter of the river god. The shy nymph wanted to flee, but the god…

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La Maison natale de Millet à Gruchy (c.1863)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La Maison natale de Millet à Gruchy (Millet’s Birthplace at Gruchy) c.1863 Pastel over crayon on paper, 31.2 x 45.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston See also: • Gruchy, Gréville-Hague (France)

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Le Repos de Diane (c.1845)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le Repos de Diane (Diana Resting) c.1845 Oil on canvas, 40.64 x 33.02 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

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Portia (1886)

Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Portia 1886 Oil on canvas, 125.1 x 83.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, the resourceful heroine Portia disguises herself in lawyer’s robes. Her intention is to outwit the…

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Femme avec un râteau (1856-1857)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Femme avec un râteau (Woman with a Rake) 1856–1857 Oil on canvas, 39.7 x 34.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Millet first treated this subject in a woodcut, one of ten in the series Labors of the…

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