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Portrait
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a...
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Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France...
- x Artist:
- Leonardo da Vinci
- x Period or Movement:
- Italian Renaissance,
- Renaissance
- x Date Begun:
- 1503
- x Date Completed:
- 1507
Las Meninas
Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The work's complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and...
- x Artist:
- Diego Velázquez
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1656
Whistler's Mother
Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother, famous under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother, is an 1871 oil-on-canvas painting by American-born painter James McNeill Whistler. The painting is 56.81 by 63.94 inches (144.3 cm × 162.4 cm),...
- x Artist:
- James McNeill Whistler
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1871
Portrait of Madame X
Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is the informal title of a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of Pierre Gautreau. The model was an American expatriate who married a French...
- x Artist:
- John Singer Sargent
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1884
Night Watch
Night Watch or The Night Watch (Dutch: De Nachtwacht) is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.
The painting may be more properly titled The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van...
- x Period or Movement:
- Dutch Golden Age
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1642
Chandos portrait
The "Chandos" portrait is one of the most famous of the portraits that may depict William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Believed to have been painted from life between 1600 and 1610, it may have served as the basis for the engraved portrait of...
- x Artist:
- x Media:
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
Lansdowne portrait
The Lansdowne portrait is an iconic oil-on-canvas portrait of George Washington, the first President of the United States. The portrait was commissioned in April 1796 by Senator William Bingham of Pennsylvania—one of the wealthiest men in the U.S....
- x Artist:
- Gilbert Stuart
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1796
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers is an oil painting by Belarusian painter Marc Chagall, painted in 1913. It appeared in the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind. This picture was painted in 1913 in France. It was painted on an oil-canvas using cubism.
- x Artist:
- Marc Chagall
- x Period or Movement:
- Surrealism
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
Laughing Cavalier
The Laughing Cavalier (1624) is a famous painting by the Dutch Baroque artist Frans Hals. The current title is a Victorian era invention; the subject does, in fact, sport an enigmatic smile. The composition is lively and spontaneous, and despite the...
- x Artist:
- Frans Hals
- x Media:
- x Period or Movement:
- Dutch Golden Age,
- Baroque
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1624
The Blue Boy
The Blue Boy (c. 1770) is an oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough. Perhaps Gainsborough's most famous work, it is thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, although this was never proved. It is a historical...
- x Artist:
- Thomas Gainsborough
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1770
Portrait of Bindo Altoviti
The Portrait of Bindo Altoviti is a painting finished around 1514 by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. It is housed in the National Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C., United States.
Bindo Altoviti was a rich banker born in Rome in 1491,...
- x Media:
- x Period or Movement:
- High Renaissance
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1514
Self-portrait with a friend
The Self-Portrait with a friend (also known as Double Portrait) is a painting by Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael.
In this double portrait the artist himself stands behind an unknown man (a friend or a pupil, perhaps Polidoro da Caravaggio...
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
Green Stripe
The Green Line (La Raie Verte) also known as The Green Stripe or Mme Matisse, is a portrait of Henri Matisse's wife, Amélie Noellie Matisse-Parayre. He painted it in 1905, just prior to such work being labeled as that of Les Fauves (the wild beasts)...
- x Artist:
- Henri Matisse
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1905
Portrait of Maffeo Barberini
Portrait of Maffeo Barberini (c. 1598) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is held in a private collection in Florence. Barberini, 30 years old and from an eminent Florentine family, was a rapidly rising...
- x Artist:
- Caravaggio
- x Period or Movement:
- Italian Baroque
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
Portrait of Pope Paul V
Portrait of Pope Paul V (c. 1605-1606) is a painting by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), now in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
Camillo Borghese reigned as Pope Paul V from 1605 to 1621. Caravaggio's biographer Giovanni...
- x Artist:
- Caravaggio
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- 1605
- x Date Completed:
- 1606
Femme aux Bras Croisés
Femme aux Bras Croisés (Woman with Folded Arms), is a painting by Pablo Picasso done in 1902 during his Blue Period. The subject of the painting is unknown, but may be an inmate of the Saint-Lazare hospital-prison in Paris.
In her book Pablo Picasso...
- x Artist:
- Pablo Picasso
- x Media:
- Oil paint,
- lithograph
- x Period or Movement:
- Blue Period
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1902
Portrait of Paul-Eugène Milliet
Portrait of Paul-Eugￃﾨne Milliet is a painting by Vincent van Gogh, executed in September 1888 in Arles.
Paul-Eugￃﾨne Milliet was a 2nd Lieutenant at the 3rd Zouave Regiment which had quarters at the Caserne Calvin located on Boulevard des Lices...
- x Artist:
- Vincent van Gogh
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1888
Portrait of Adeline Ravoux
Portrait of Adeline Ravoux was painted by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in 1890.
The twelve-year-old Adeline Ravoux was the daughter of Arthur-Gustave Ravoux, whose inn is where Van Gogh lodged in Auvers-sur-Oise. She later...
- x Artist:
- Vincent van Gogh
- x Period or Movement:
- Post-Impressionism
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1890
Soliloquy I
- x Artist:
- Sam Taylor-Wood
- x Art Form:
- Photography
- x Media:
- chromogenic print
- x Period or Movement:
- Contemporary art
- x Date Begun:
- 1998
- x Date Completed:
- 1998
Self Portrait with Black Vase
- x Artist:
- Egon Schiele
- x Media:
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga
The Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga is a picture painted around 1504 by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael in the Uffizi, Florence. The woman portrayed is Elisabetta Gonzaga. Details include the black dress with applied trim in a patchwork...
- x Period or Movement:
- Italian Renaissance
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo
The Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son is a painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino, finished c. 1545. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy.
The painting depicts Eleonora of Toledo, the wife of...
- x Artist:
- Agnolo di Cosimo
- x Media:
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
Portrait of a young girl
Portrait of a young girl (painted after 1446) is a painting by the Dutch artist Petrus Christus. The painting marks a stylistic shift in the development of Netherlandish portraiture; the sitter is no longer set against a neutral background, instead...
- x Artist:
- Petrus Christus
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand
Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand is an 1874 painting by Thomas Eakins. It is oil on canvas and depicts Benjamin H. Rand, a doctor at Jefferson Medical College who taught Eakins anatomy. In the painting, Rand is reading a book while petting a...
- x Artist:
- Thomas Eakins
- x Media:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1874
Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
Portrait of a Kleptomaniac or Portrait of an Insane Person (French : L'Aliéné or Le Kleptomane) is a 1822 oil painting by Théodore Géricault. It is part of series of ten portraits made for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget and is currently kept...
- x Artist:
- Théodore Géricault
- x Period or Movement:
- Romanticism
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1822
Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt
Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906) is a painting by Henri Matisse from his Fauvism period, in the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- x Artist:
- Henri Matisse
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1906
The Artist in His Museum
The Artist in His Museum is an 1822 self-portrait by the American artist Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827). Toward the end of his career, beginning in 1822, he painted seven self-portraits that together formed the final motif of his art and the...
- x Artist:
- Charles Willson Peale
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1822
Charles IV of Spain and His Family
Charles IV of Spain and His Family is an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, completed between 1800–1801. The work was modeled on Velázquez's Las Meninas when setting the royal subjects in a naturalistic, and plausible...
- x Artist:
- Francisco Goya
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- 1800
- x Date Completed:
- 1801
Portrait of a Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Martin de Redin
"Portrait of a Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Martin de Redin" (c. 1660) is a painting by Italian artist Mattia Preti.
- x Artist:
- Mattia Preti
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1660
On a Balcony
- x Artist:
- Mary Cassatt
- x Period or Movement:
- American Impressionism,
- Impressionism
- x Date Begun:
- 1878
- x Date Completed:
- 1879
Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair
- x Artist:
- Paul Cézanne
- x Period or Movement:
- Post-Impressionism
- x Date Begun:
- 1888
- x Date Completed:
- 1890
Daniel Hubbard
"Daniel Hubbard" (1764) is a painting by American artist John Singleton Copley.
- x Artist:
- John Singleton Copley
- x Media:
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- 1764
- x Date Completed:
Portrait of the Katchef Dahouth, Christian Mameluke
"Portrait of the Katchef Dahouth, Christian Mameluke" (1804) is a painting by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- 1804
- x Date Completed:
Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat
"Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat" (1875-1876) is a painting by French artist Paul Cézanne.
- x Artist:
- Paul Cézanne
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- 1875
- x Date Completed:
- 1876
Self-Portrait
- x Artist:
- Lovis Corinth
- x Period or Movement:
- x Date Begun:
- 1924
- x Date Completed:
- 1924
The Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse in Haarlem
"The Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse in Haarlem" (c. 1664) is a painting by Dutch Baroque-era painter Frans Hals.
- x Artist:
- Frans Hals
- x Period or Movement:
- Dutch Golden Age
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1664
Portrait of Jaspar Schade
"Portrait of Jaspar Schade" (c. 1645) is a painting by Dutch artist Frans Hals.
- x Artist:
- Frans Hals
- x Period or Movement:
- Dutch Golden Age
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1645
The Sampling Officials
The Sampling Officials (Dutch: De Staalmeesters), also called Syndics of the Drapers' Guild, is an oil painting by Rembrandt. It is owned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It has been described as his "last great collective portrait".
- x Period or Movement:
- Dutch Golden Age
- x Date Begun:
- x Date Completed:
- 1662
