Image Credits

From left to right:

1. Studio of Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825

The Death of Marat (Marat assassiné)(detail), 1793-94 oil on canvas. Paris, Musée du Louvre Legs du Baron Jeanin, descendant of the artist (RF 1945-2) Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, New York

2. Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875)

The Sower, 1850. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr. and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton (17.1485) Photograph © 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

3. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

Group of Bathers,(detail) c.1895 oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 (1950-134-34) Photo by Graydon Wood

4. Camille Corot (1796-1875)

The Morning Star (L'ètoile du matin) (detail),1864. Oil on canvas. Toulouse, Musèe des Augustins (Ro 60). Photograph by Daniel Martin

5. Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Woman in Blue, 1937 oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gift of Mrs. John Wintersteen, 1956 (1956-23-1) © 2007 Succession H. Matisse, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

6. Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

The Duel after the Masquerade, 1857-59 oil on canvas. Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum. Bequest of Henry Walters, 1931 (37.51)

7. Jean-Dominique-Auguste Ingres (1780-1867)

Oedipus and the Sphinx (Edipe explique l'énigme du sphinx) (detail), 1808. oil on canvas. Paris, Musée du Louvre. Legs de la Comtesse Duchâtel, 1878 (RF 218) Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource

 

Videography by John Dean, edited by John Dean and Penny Forester. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum.