Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Luis de Góngora y Argote 1622 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 40.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Velázquez‘s abilities as both painter and observer make him one of the great portraitists of Western painting; this early work is…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Cardinal Niccolò Albergati? c.1438 Oil on oak, 34 × 29.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna During a peace congress in Arras in 1435, van Eyck made a silverpoint drawing (Dresden), in which he not only recorded the physiognomy…
Guercino (1591-1666) Ritorno del figliol prodigo (Homecoming of the Prodigal Son) 1619 Oil on canvas, 107 × 143.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Compare: Guercino (1591-1666) Il ritorno del figliol prodigo 1654–1655 Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Old Woman and Boy with Candles c.1616–1617 Oil on panel, 62.5 x 77 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Étude de tête (Study of a Head) s.d. Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 33.3 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) c.1588 Oil on canvas, 63 x 52 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Tintoretto painted this self-portrait for the German goldsmith and art dealer Hans Jakob König who, based in Venice, was building a collection of artists’…
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Portrait d’un vieil homme (Portrait of an Old Man) s.d. Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 38.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1875 Oil on canvas, 53.4 x 43.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
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…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 64.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In this enigmatic painting, an unidentified man in modern bourgeois attire sits in a chair among cuts of meat. A…