Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (France, 1824–1898) Jeune noir à l'épée (Young black boy with a sword) oil on canvas 105 x 73 cm. (41.3 x 28.7 in.) Painted in 1850 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France In Jeune Noir à l'épée (Young Black Man with Sword), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, then barely twenty-six, overturns aesthetic ...
Lewis Wickes Hine (America, 1874–1940) Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in the foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10-year-old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 years in Hazardville, Connecticut 9 August 1917 Collection of ...
Odilon Redon (France, 1840–1916) Le Bouddha (The Buddha) pastel on beige paper 90 x 73 cm. (35 3/8 x 28 3/4 in.) Painted around 1906–1907 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France From the 1890s, at the invitation of his friend Armand Clavaud, Odilon Redon developed a passion for botany, Hinduism and Buddhism. He devoured Paul ...
Christie's Paris: Avant-Garde(s) including Thinking Italian Paris, once again, the beating heart of the international market of modern, post-war and contemporary art. On this occasion, Christie’s presenting its second edition of the Avant-Garde(s) including Thinking Italian sale, an exceptional auction that pays tribute to the great names of artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. ...
Raphael or Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italy, 1483–1520) Madonna Bridgeland (The Bridgewater Madonna) oil on canvas 81 × 55 cm. (32 × 22 in.) Painted c. 1507 - 1508 Collection of Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh LIGHT-DARK IN THE BRIDGEWATER A Chiaroscuro Masterpiece by Raffaello When did artists first use light-dark technique in painting? In Art 101 courses, this ...
Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798–1863) La Mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) oil on canvas 73.71 × 82.47 cm. (29.02 × 32.47 in.) Painted in 1844 Collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art, America Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798–1863) La Mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) oil on canvas 392 × 496 cm. (154 × 195 ...
Jean Fouquet (France, c. 1420–1481) Pietà de Nouans-les-Fontaines oil on canvas 168 × 259 cm. Painted towards 1460-1465 Called Pietà when it's actually the moment when Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus lay Christ's body on the Virgin's lap. Fouquet's largest painting (168 × 259 cm), yet little known to the general public, this is a work ...
Marie Bashkirtseva (Russia, 1858–1884) Un meeting (A meeting) oil on canvas 193 x 177 cm. (75.9 x 69.6 in.) Painted in 1884 Collection of Musée d'Orsay At the end of the 19th century, women could cultivate themselves, admire and copy works of art, but were deemed incapable of creating. And in the French capital, the ...