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Study for La Grande Odalisque

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

This study relates to Ingres’s celebrated masterpiece La Grande Odalisque (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The painting was commissioned in 1813 by Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and sister of Napoleon...

Pharmaceutical jar

Castelli (Abruzzo), Italy, Around 1540-60

This study relates to Ingres’s celebrated masterpiece La Grande Odalisque (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The painting was commissioned in 1813 by Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and sister of Napoleon...

Berthe Morisot drawing, with her daughter

Berthe Morisot

Primarily known as an Impressionist painter, Berthe Morisot turned to printmaking late in her career. This sensitive self-portrait, showing her working under the gaze of her eleven-year-old daughter Julie, is...

A Tile Factory

Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh made this drawing of a tile factory at the edge of a ploughed field during his sojourn in Arles in 1888. Using reed pens of varying thickness, he...

Dish with Coat of Arms

Savona, Italy, 1663-78

This study relates to Ingres’s celebrated masterpiece La Grande Odalisque (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The painting was commissioned in 1813 by Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and sister of Napoleon...

The Myth of Prometheus

Oskar Kokoschka

This study relates to Ingres’s celebrated masterpiece La Grande Odalisque (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The painting was commissioned in 1813 by Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and sister of Napoleon...

Footed Bowl with the Crucifixion

Urbino, Italy, probably Workshop of Orazio Fontana (around 1510-1571) or Antonio Patanazzi (1515-1587), 1550-70

This study relates to Ingres’s celebrated masterpiece La Grande Odalisque (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The painting was commissioned in 1813 by Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and sister of Napoleon...

Blond Girl

Lucian Freud

From the 1980s onwards, Lucian Freud produced etchings of people who posed for him, either clothed or naked in his studio. His unusual approach involved working directly on the etching...

Autumn Effect at Argenteuil

Claude Monet

This study relates to Ingres’s celebrated masterpiece La Grande Odalisque (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The painting was commissioned in 1813 by Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and sister of Napoleon...

Bust of Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Marcelle Lender was an actress and dancer; Toulouse-Lautrec was captivated by her red hair and flamboyant manner. He depicted her multiple times. This lithographic portrait is one of his most...

Workshop of Roubilliac

Around 1759

This study relates to Ingres’s celebrated masterpiece La Grande Odalisque (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The painting was commissioned in 1813 by Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and sister of Napoleon...

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