Ishibashi Kazunori - Lady Reading Poetry 1906

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Ishibashi Kazunori (1876-1928) est un peintre japonais.

Ishibashi Kazunori (1876-1928) was a Japanese painter active in both yōga and nihonga. He is also known as Ishibashi Wakun, Ishibashi Kazukuni, and Gagen.

Jean Bourdichon - Saint Margaret and the Dragon (The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany) 1503-1508

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Jean Bourdichon (1456/1457-1520/1521) est un peintre et enlumineur de la cour de France entre la fin du XVe siècle et le début du XVIe siècle. Il fut peintre en titre de quatre rois de France, Louis XI, Charles VIII, Louis XII et François Ier. Jean Bourdichon est surtout connu comme l'enlumineur de son œuvre principale, les Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne.

Jean Bourdichon (1456/1457-1520/1521) was a miniature painter and manuscript illuminator at the court of France between the end of the 15th century and the start of the 16th century, in the reigns of Louis XI of France, Charles VIII of France, Louis XII of France and Francis I of France. He was probably born in Tours, and was a pupil of Jehan Fouquet. He died in Tours. One of Bourdichon's most famous works is the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany.

Albert Anker - Sleeping Girl on a Wooden Bench

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Albert Anker (1831-1910) est un illustrateur et peintre suisse. On l'appelle fréquemment le « peintre national » de la Suisse en raison de ses représentations durablement populaires de la vie des villages de son pays au XIXe siècle.

Albert Anker (1831-1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.

Cesare Auguste Detti - Portrait of a Noblewoman

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Cesare Auguste Detti (1847-1914) est un peintre italien.

Cesare Auguste Detti (1847-1914) was an Italian painter.

Adolph von Menzel

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Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905) est un peintre, graveur et illustrateur allemand.

Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German artists of the 19th century, and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany. First known as Adolph Menzel, he was knighted in 1898 and changed his name to Adolph von Menzel.

Léon-François Comerre - The Flower Seller (Detail)

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Léon-François Comerre (1850-1916) est un peintre et sculpteur orientaliste français. Il est l'oncle du peintre Albert Gleizes.

Léon-François Comerre (1850-1916) was a French academic painter, famous for his portraits of beautiful women.

Vincent Van Gogh - Portrait of Père Tanguy

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Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890), est un peintre et dessinateur néerlandais. Son œuvre pleine de naturalisme, inspirée par l'impressionnisme et le pointillisme, annonce le fauvisme et l'expressionnisme.

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.

Felix Vallotton - Sleeping Woman

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Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) est un artiste peintre, graveur, illustrateur, sculpteur, critique d'art et romancier franco-suisse.

Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut.

Eduard Friedrich Leybold 1824

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Eduard Friedrich Leybold (1798-1879) est une artiste peintre autrichienne. 

Eduard Friedrich Leybold (1798-1879) was an Austrian painter.

Carl Thomsen

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Carl Thomsen (1847-1912) est un artiste peintre danois et un illustrateur. Il s'est spécialisé dans la peinture de genre et également dans l'illustration d'œuvres de plusieurs auteurs danois.

Carl Thomsen (1847-1912) was a Danish painter and illustrator. He specialized in genre painting and also illustrated the works of several Danish authors.

Albert Lynch

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Albert Lynch (1851-1912) est un peintre dont la famille est originaire du Pérou.

Albert Lynch (1851-1912) was a Peruvian painter.

Angelica Kauffmann - Self-portraits



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Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) est l'une des femmes peintres et portraitistes les plus célèbres du XVIIIe siècle.

Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.

Angelica Kauffmann

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Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) est l'une des femmes peintres et portraitistes les plus célèbres du XVIIIe siècle.

Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe - Mother with her Young Daughter 1865

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Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, Gustave Léonard De Jonghe ou Gustave de Jonghe (1829-1893) est un peintre belge.

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, Gustave Léonard De Jonghe or Gustave de Jonghe (1829-1893) was a Belgian painter known for his glamorous society portraits and genre scenes.

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe - The Japanese Fan c.1865

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Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, Gustave Léonard De Jonghe ou Gustave de Jonghe (1829-1893) est un peintre belge.

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, Gustave Léonard De Jonghe or Gustave de Jonghe (1829-1893) was a Belgian painter known for his glamorous society portraits and genre scenes.

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe - Woman at the Piano with Cockatoo c.1870

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Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, Gustave Léonard De Jonghe ou Gustave de Jonghe (1829-1893) est un peintre belge.

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, Gustave Léonard De Jonghe or Gustave de Jonghe (1829-1893) was a Belgian painter known for his glamorous society portraits and genre scenes.

Leonardo da Vinci - Study of a Woman 1490


Léonard de Vinci (1452-1519) est un peintre florentin et un homme d'esprit universel, à la fois artiste, organisateur de spectacles et de fêtes, scientifique, ingénieur, inventeur, anatomiste, peintre, sculpteur, architecte, urbaniste, botaniste, musicien, poète, philosophe et écrivain.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.

Philip Hermogenes Calderon - The Young Lord Hamlet 1868


Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833-1898) est un peintre anglais.

Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833-1898) was an English painter of French birth (mother) and Spanish (father) ancestry who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy in London.

Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa - Fiesta Valenciana

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Hermen Anglada Camarasa (en catalan) ou Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa (en espagnol), plus connu comme Anglada-Camarasa (1871-1959), est un peintre et lithographe espagnol.

Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa (1871-1959), known in Catalan as Hermenegild (or Hermen) Anglada Caramasa, was a Catalan and Balearic Spanish painter.

Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa - La Gata Rosa 1908


Hermen Anglada Camarasa (en catalan) ou Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa (en espagnol), plus connu comme Anglada-Camarasa (1871-1959), est un peintre et lithographe espagnol.

Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa (1871-1959), known in Catalan as Hermenegild (or Hermen) Anglada Caramasa, was a Catalan and Balearic Spanish painter.

Richard Edward Miller - Miss V in Green 1920


Richard E. Miller (1875-1943) est un peintre américain.

Richard E. Miller (1875-1943) was an American Impressionist painter and a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists. Miller was primarily a figurative painter, known for his paintings of women posing languidly in interiors or outdoor settings. 

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola - Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and her Daughter

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Lucien-Victor Guirand, dit Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola  (1871-1950) est un peintre, dessinateur et illustrateur français.

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (1871-1950)  was a French painter. He is known for his pioneering leadership of the Section de Camouflage (the French Camouflage Department) in World War I.

Lucien Victor Guirand de Scévola 1899

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Lucien-Victor Guirand, dit Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola  (1871-1950) est un peintre, dessinateur et illustrateur français.

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (1871-1950)  was a French painter. He is known for his pioneering leadership of the Section de Camouflage (the French Camouflage Department) in World War I.

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola - The King's Daughter


Lucien-Victor Guirand, dit Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola  (1871-1950) est un peintre, dessinateur et illustrateur français.

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (1871-1950)  was a French painter. He is known for his pioneering leadership of the Section de Camouflage (the French Camouflage Department) in World War I.

Frederick Arthur Bridgeman - The Siesta

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Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928) est un peintre américain ayant fréquemment séjourné en France. Il fut l'un des peintres orientalistes les plus connus aux États-Unis.

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847–1928) est un peintre américain.

Vincent Van Gogh - Self-Portrait

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Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890), est un peintre et dessinateur néerlandais. Son œuvre pleine de naturalisme, inspirée par l'impressionnisme et le pointillisme, annonce le fauvisme et l'expressionnisme.

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.

Alexander Johnston

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Alexander Johnston (1815-1891) est un peintre écossais.

Alexander Johnston (1815-1891) was a Scottish painter, known for genre and history paintings.

Conrad Kiesel - The Duet

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Conrad Kiesel (1846-1921) est un peintre allemand.

Conrad Kiesel (1846-1921) was a German painter.

Julius Adam


Julius Adam, surnommé "Katzen Adam", (1852-1913) est un peintre animalier, de genre et lithographe allemand.

Julius Adam (1852-1913) was a German painter.

Jules Ferdinand Médard - Still Life with Roses, Jasmine and other Flowers

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Jules Ferdinand Médard (1855-1925) est un peintre français.

Jules Ferdinand Médard (1855-1925) was a French painter.

James Jebusa Shannon - The Silver Ship

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James Jebusa Shannon (1862-1923) est un peintre anglo-américain.

James Jebusa Shannon (1862-1923) was an Anglo-American artist.

Alberto Morrocco - Woman in the Window 1953

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Alberto Morrocco (1917-1998) est un peintre écossais.

Alberto Morrocco (1917-1998) was a Scottish artist and teacher. He is famous for his landscapes in Scotland and abroad, still-life, figure painting and interiors, but perhaps his best known works are his beach scenes and views of Venice.

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer - Fêtes de Cérès 1897

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Lucien Lévy, dit Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1865-1953) est un peintre, sculpteur et céramiste symboliste français.

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1865-1953) was a French Symbolist/Art Nouveau artist whose works include paintings, drawings, ceramics, furniture and interior design.

Bessie MacNicol

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Elizabeth "Bessie" MacNicol (1869–1904) est une peintre écossaise.

Elizabeth "Bessie" MacNicol (1869–1904) was a Scottish painter and member of the Glasgow Girls group of artists affiliated with the Glasgow School of artists.

Henry Robert Morland - The Fair Nun Unmasked

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Henry Robert Morland (1716/19-1797) est un peintre anglais, bien connu pour son portrait du roi George III et pour être le père du peintre animalier George Morland.

Henry Robert Morland (1716/19-1797) was an English portrait painter, best remembered for a portrait of King George III, and for being the father of the animal painter George Morland.

George Spencer Watson

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George Spencer Watson (1869-1934) est un peintre anglais.

George Spencer Watson (1869-1934) was an English portrait artist of the late romantic school who sometimes worked in the style of the Italian Renaissance.

Wilhelm Menzler Casel

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Wilhelm Menzler Casel (1846-1926) est un peintre allemand. 

Wilhelm Menzler Casel (1846-1926) was a German painter.

Edmund Blair Leighton - Farewell 1922

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Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922) est le fils de l'artiste Charles Blair Leighton, qui meurt alors qu'Edmund n'a que 2 ans. Après avoir fait des études universitaires, il devient étudiant à la Royal Academy, où il expose ses tableaux de 1878 à 1880. Il reçoit d'ailleurs une récompense pour ses œuvres Witness My Act and Seal et A Flaw in the Title. Par la suite ses tableaux sont souvent exposés à la Burlington House.

Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specializing in Regency and medieval subjects.

Sandro Botticelli - The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child c.1485

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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (1445-1510), dit Sandro Botticelli, est un peintre italien. Botticelli est l'un des peintres les plus importants de la Renaissance italienne et de l'histoire de l'art.

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (1445-1510), known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a "golden age". Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then, his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.

Edmund Blair Leighton - Reverie

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Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922) est le fils de l'artiste Charles Blair Leighton, qui meurt alors qu'Edmund n'a que 2 ans. Après avoir fait des études universitaires, il devient étudiant à la Royal Academy, où il expose ses tableaux de 1878 à 1880. Il reçoit d'ailleurs une récompense pour ses œuvres Witness My Act and Seal et A Flaw in the Title. Par la suite ses tableaux sont souvent exposés à la Burlington House.

Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specializing in Regency and medieval subjects.

Gilbert Stuart Newton - The Gentle Student

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Gilbert Stuart Newton (1795-1835) est un peintre britannique.

Gilbert Stuart Newton (1795-1835) was a British artist.

Ralph Hedley - Cat in a Cottage Window

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Ralph Hedley (1848-1913) was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings portraying scenes of everyday life in the North East of England.

Vincent Van Gogh - Head of a Young Man 1884-85

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Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890), est un peintre et dessinateur néerlandais. Son œuvre pleine de naturalisme, inspirée par l'impressionnisme et le pointillisme, annonce le fauvisme et l'expressionnisme.

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.

Philip Alexius de László - Violet Rawson 1915

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Philip Alexius de László, né Fülöp Elek Laub (1869-1927) est un peintre britannique d'origine hongroise.

Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937) was a Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages. In 1900, he married Lucy Guinness of Stillorgan and became a British citizen in 1914.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Adoration 1858-1864

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) est un peintre, poète, traducteur, et écrivain britannique. Il fonda le préraphaélisme en 1848 avec William Holman Hunt et John Everett Millais, et fut plus tard, l’inspiration principale d’une seconde génération d’artistes et écrivains influencés par ce mouvement dont, notamment, William Morris et Edward Burne-Jones. 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.

Alfons Mucha - Flower 1897

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Alfons Maria Mucha, né à Ivančice (ville de Moravie qui faisait alors partie de l'Empire d'Autriche, et aujourd'hui se trouve en République tchèque) en 1860 et mort à Prague en 1939, est un affichiste, illustrateur, graphiste, peintre, architecte d'intérieur et décorateur tchèque, fer-de-lance du style Art nouveau.

Alfons Maria Mucha (1860 - 1939), often known in English and French as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs.

Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Camille Roulin 1888

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Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890), est un peintre et dessinateur néerlandais. Son œuvre pleine de naturalisme, inspirée par l'impressionnisme et le pointillisme, annonce le fauvisme et l'expressionnisme.

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.