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’…
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…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Joseph Roulin assis (Joseph Roulin seated) 1888 Oil on canvas, 81.3 cm × 65.4 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Van Gogh left Paris for Arles, a small town in southern France, in February 1888, where he…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Souvenirs (Memories) 1840 Hand-coloured lithograph and gum arabic on buff paper, 26.8 × 81 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Auguste Rodin 1884–1885 Bronze, 40 x 25 x 28 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine See also: • Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)