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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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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...
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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),...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Soliloquy I
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Portrait of Marie-Louise O'Murphy
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Self Portrait with Black Vase
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Portrait of Picasso
"Portrait of Picasso" (1912) is an important early Cubist painting by Spanish artist Juan Gris.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Madame de Pastoret and Her Son
"Madame de Pastoret and Her Son" (1791-1792) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David.
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Henry Ossawa Tanner
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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.
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On a Balcony
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Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene)
"Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene)" (c. 1764) is a painting by American artist John Singleton Copley.
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Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair
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Old Man with a Gold Chain
"Old Man with a Gold Chain" (1631) is a painting by Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
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Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams
"Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams" (1899) is a painting by American artist Thomas Eakins.
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Portrait of a Seated Woman
"Portrait of a Seated Woman" (c. 1560-1565) is a painting by Anthony More.
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Self-Portrait
"Self-Portrait" (1887) is a painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It was painted in Paris in the spring of 1887.
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Daniel Hubbard
"Daniel Hubbard" (1764) is a painting by American artist John Singleton Copley.
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Major-General Henry Dearborn
Major-General Henry Dearborn (1813) is a painting by American artist Gilbert Stuart.
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Riter Fitzgerald
"Riter Fitzgerald" (1895) is a painting by American artist Thomas Eakins.
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Madame Francois Buron
"Madame François Buron" (1769) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David.
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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.
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Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat
"Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat" (1875-1876) is a painting by French artist Paul Cézanne.
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Self-Portrait
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The Repentant Peter
"The Repentant Peter" is a painting by Spanish Renaissance artist El Greco.
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Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert
"Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert" (1633) is a painting by Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.
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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.
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Portrait of Jaspar Schade
"Portrait of Jaspar Schade" (c. 1645) is a painting by Dutch artist Frans Hals.
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Portrait of Mme Matisse
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Portrait of Mlle Yvonne Landsberg
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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".
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Self-Portrait
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