Hugues Merle

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Hugues Merle (1822-1881) est un peintre français.

Hugues Merle (1822-1881) was a French painter who mostly depicted sentimental or moral subjects. He has often been compared with William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Ramón Casas i Carbó 1901

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Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) est un peintre et affichiste espagnol, promoteur du modernisme catalan. Il est surtout connu pour ses portraits et caricatures de l’élite catalane, espagnole et française.

Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) was a Catalan Spanish artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid. Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme.

Cesare Saccaggi - The Duet

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Cesare Saccaggi (1868-1934) est un peintre italien de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle.

Cesare Saccaggi (1868-1934) was an Italian painter.

Alfred Stevens - Young Woman Reading 1856

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Alfred Stevens (1823-1906) est un peintre belge. Élève de Ingres à École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris à partir de 1844, sa carrière a connu une ascension fulgurante tant en Belgique qu'en France où il a passé la plus grande partie de sa vie. Très introduit dans les milieux artistiques et mondains de la capitale, il était l'ami d'Édouard Manet et Berthe Morisot.

Alfred Stevens (1823-1906) was a Belgian painter, known for his paintings of elegant modern women.

Firmin Baes 1917

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Firmin Baes (1874-1943) est un artiste peintre impressionniste belge.

Firmin Baes (1874-1943) was a Belgian painter.

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.