Leonardo Da Vinci Ginevra De’ Benci (1474)
Ginevra de Benci was an aristocrat from fifteenth-century Florence, admired for her intelligence by Florentine contemporaries. She is the subject of a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The oil-on-wood portrait was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., United States, in 1967.
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Vincent Van Gogh Portrait Of Dr. Gachet With Pipe
1890 work on paper
Van Gogh, introduced to etching by Gachet, made the etching Portrait of Doctor Gachet in 1890. Gachet and Van Gogh discussed creating a series of southern France themes but that never happened. This was the one and only etching, also known as L’homme la pipe (Man with a pipe), that Van Gogh ever made. Van Gogh’s brother, Theo, who received an impression of the etching, called it “a true painter’s etching. No refinement in the execution, but a drawing on metal.” It is a different pose than that in Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet, owned by Musee d’Orsay.
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Vincent Van Gogh Portrait Of Dr. Gachet
1890 Fine Art Painting
Portrait of Dr. Gachet is one of the most revered paintings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. There are two authenticated versions of the portrait, both painted in June 1890 at Auvers-sur-Oise. Both show Gachet sitting at a table and leaning his head on his right arm but they are easily differentiated in color and style. In 1990, the first version fetched a record price of $82.5 million ($75 million, plus a 10 percent buyer’s commission) when sold at auction in New York. When accounting for inflation, this is still the highest price paid for art at a public auction.
Van Gogh painted Gachet resting his right elbow on a red table, head in hand. Two yellow books as well as the purple medicinal herb foxglove are displayed on the table. The foxglove in the painting is a plant from which digitalis is extracted for the treatment of certain heart complaints, perhaps an attribute of Gachet as a physician.
Vincent Van Gogh Gauguin’s Armchair With Candle
1888 Fine Art Painting
Vincent Van Gogh Eugene Boch Portrait
1888 Fine Art Painting
Vincent van Gogh implemented this ideology to pursue his goal of depicting his own feelings toward and involvement with his subjects. Van Gogh’s portraiture focuses on color and brushstrokes to demonstrate their inner qualities and van Gogh’s own relationship with them.
Eugene Boch was a Belgian painter who was the younger brother of Anna Boch, a founding member of Les XX. Born into a wealthy dynasty of manufacturers of fine china and ceramics, still active today under the firm of Villeroy & Boch, Eugene Boch enrolled in the private atelier of Leon Bonnat in Paris, in 1879. Since 1882, when Bonnat closed his atelier, he studied at the atelier of Fernand Cormon. Paintings of him were admitted to the Salon in 1882, 1883 and 1885. In June 1888, he was introduced by Dodge MacKnight to Vincent van Gogh.
The portrait was executed in the first days of September 1888, a few days before Boch’s departure. In the first version of Van Gogh’s Bedroom, executed in October 1888, this portrait is shown hanging to the left of the portrait of Paul-Eugene Milliet. Arranged this way, both portraits may have formed part of the Decoration for the Yellow House.
