Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Paysage avec Polyphème (Landscape with Polyphemus) 1649 Oil on canvas, 148.5 x 197.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Set into a Classical landscape are figures taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (13: 750-897). The one-eyed Cyclope Polyphemus fell in love with…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Souvenir de Coubron (Souvenir of Coubron) 1872 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 55.7 cm Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest In the wake of the Paris Commune (1871), Corot visited a friend of his in Coubron, a doctor, with whom he…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Pont-Neuf 1902 Oil on canvas, 55.3 x 46.5 cm Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Pissarro produced a dozen of paintings of the Pont Neuf, the oldest stone bridge in Paris, capturing the elegant limestone structure spanning the Seine…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Trois bateaux de pêche (Three Fishing Boats) 1886 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Throughout the life of Claude Monet, the movements of water, the ever-changing light and weather conditions of the sea…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Charles I and his Son in the Studio of Van Dyck 1849 Oil on wood, 15.9 x 11.4 cm Tate Britain, London See also: • Charles I (England) | Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) The Wedding of St George and Princess Sabra 1857 Watercolour on paper, 36.5 x 36.5 cm Tate Britain, London This work was executed while Rossetti and other artists were decorating the Oxford Union with medievalist murals. In Oxford,…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Buste de femme au chapeau à fleurs (Bust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat) July 11, 1943 Oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm Private collection See also: • Maar, Dora (1907-1997)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme au chapeau (Woman with a hat) 1935 Oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris See also: • Khokhlova, Olga (1891-1955)
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Portrait d’Olga dans un fauteuil (Olga in an Armchair) spring 1918 Oil on canvas, 130 x 88.8 cm Musée Picasso, Paris Olga Khokhlova in Picasso‘s Montrouge studio, spring 1918. Olga Khokhlova was the first woman Picasso married, in the summer of…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Olga Picasso 1923 Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm Private collection See also: • Khokhlova, Olga (1891-1955)