Category: Old Masters

Edgar Degas (France, 1834–1917) L'Absinthe (The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) oil on canvas 92 × 68 cm. (36.2 × 26.8 in.) Painted in 1875–1876 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Edgar Degas chose as his subject a very popular drink at the end of the 19th century: absinthe. This is how the painting is often ...

Nicolas Poussin (France, 1594–1665) Et in Arcadia ego (Les bergers d'Arcadie or The Arcadian Shepherds) oil on canvas 85 × 121 cm. (34.25 × 47.24 in.) painted in 1637–1638 Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France Nicolas Poussin – The leading painter of the classical French Baroque style A 17th-century painter, depicts a landscape in Arcadia, a mountainous ...

Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798–1863) La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty Leading the People) oil on canvas 260 × 325 cm. (102.4 × 128.0 in.) painted in 1830 Collection of Louvre Museum, Paris, France Eugène Delacroix's "Liberty Guiding the People" leaves the Louvre for restoration In 2019, the Paris museum launched a major restoration campaign for ...

Auguste Rodin (France, 1840–1917) Le Baiser (The Kiss) sculpture; Marble 181.5 × 112.5 × 117 cm. (71.5 × 44.3 × 46 in.) Executed in 1882 Collection of Musée Rodin, Paris, France This couple embracing, this woman abandoning herself, this hand that the man places, barely, like a touch, on the hip of the one he ...

Raphael or Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italy, 1483–1520) Leone dieci, Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici (Portrait of Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Luigi de ‘Rossi’) oil on wood 154 cm × 119 cm (61 in × 47 in) Painted c. 1518-1520 Collection of  Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. I present for your admiration and study the c. 1518, ...

The Invention of Language: Shared Revolution of Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso An exhibition at Paris’s Musée du Luxembourg traces the relationship between the American writer and the Spanish painter and their influences on 20th-century art and marks the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death in a place generally devoted to the broadly appealing celebration of ...

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (France, 1755–1842) Marie-Antoinette en chemise ou en gaulle (Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress) oil on canvas 92.7 x 73.1 cm (36 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.) Painted in 1783 Collection of National Gallery of Art, Washington DC At the Salon of 1783, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Marie-Antoinette's official portraitist and confidante, ...

Christie's Lates Picasso: A 50-year Legacy Celebrating Picasso's artistic legacy One of history’s most influential artists, Pablo Picasso devoted his life to art for nearly 80 years. Throughout his long and varied career, Picasso produced more than 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theatre sets and costumes. His innovation and genius continue to inspire beyond ...

Musée du Luxembourg Exposition:  Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso — The Invention of Language To mark the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death, the Musée du Luxembourg is staging a major exhibition on the story of the extraordinary friendship between two 20th-century icons, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), a Jewish American ...

Gaston Roullet (France, 1847-1925) Landscape Of Hanoi signed and dated Hanoi 1885 (lower left) oil on canvas 27 x 38cm. (10½ x 15 in.) Painted in 1885 Marie Anatole Gaston Roullet, born November 15, 1847, in Ars-en-Ré and died December 2, 1925, in Paris, was a French painter and illustrator, appointed official painter of the ...