Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le treillis (The Trellis) 1862 Oil on canvas, 109.9 × 135.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Summer flowers are the heart of this painting. Full-blown, they surge across the surface, engulfing the young woman whose dress is even…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Le Ballet de ‘Robert Le Diable’ (The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer’s Opera Robert Le Diable) 1876 Oil on canvas, 76.6 × 81.3 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was born in Paris where he entered the…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) The Day Dream 1880 Oil on canvas, 158.7 × 92.7 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London The sitter for this painting was Jane Morris, the wife of William Morris, who often posed for Rossetti. At the time this…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Natività (The Nativity) c.1522 Fresco transferred to canvas, 254.5 × 131 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Pietro di Cristoforo Vanucci called Perugino (ca. 1450-1523) may have trained with Andrea Verrocchio and subsequently with Piero della Francesca in 1480. He…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Portrait de Madame de Pompadour (Portrait of Madame Pompadour) 1758 Oil on canvas, 57.8 × 52.4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London François Boucher (1703-1770) was born in Paris and probably received his first artistic training from his father…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1669 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 60.2 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague No other seventeenth-century Dutch artist portrayed himself as often or in as many different ways as Rembrandt. In every phase of his career, he drew, etched and painted…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Une couturière (A Seamstress) 1892 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 53.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis The subject of a woman sewing comes directly from Edouard Vuillard‘s own experience in his mother’s dressmaking shop where, as a…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 x 50.2 cm Private collection Compare: Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita 1890 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) La Carmencita c.1890 Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • La…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te vaa (Canoe; Tahitian Family) 1896 Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 131.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Gauguin moved to Tahiti (Polynesia) in 1891, seeking to find the simplicity lacking in the “civilised” life of Parisian society. Here he…
Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) Portrait of a Man with an Open Book – Guillaume Fillastre (?) (recto) 1430s Unidentified paint on panel, 33.7 x 23.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Branch of Holly (verso) The man looks up, as if…