Eva Gonzalès
(1849 - 1883)
 

Eva Gonzalès was a French Impressionist painter. She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Berthe Morisot (1841–95), and Marie Bracquemond (1840–1916).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Gonzalès

Girl Awakening
c. 1877/78
Oil on canvas
81 x 100 cm
Kunsthalle Bremen
https://onlinekatalog.kunsthalle-bremen.de/DE-MUS-027614/object/4595

Candido Portinari
(1903 - 1962)
 

Candido Portinari was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candido_Portinari

Boy Sleeping
1960
Oil on canvas
20 cm × 17 cm
Projeto Portinari, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
https://www.portinari.org.br/en/archive/artwork/19434/boy-sleeping

Adolph Artz
(1837 - 1890)

 

David Adolph Constant Artz was a Dutch painter and collector who associated with some members of the Hague School. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Artz

 

Lulled to Sleep
1871
56x 39 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Lulled-to-Sleep--d89cfefeb18df873238a52d1166395bc

Berthe Morisot
(1841–1895 )
 

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe_Morisot

The Cradle
1872
Oil on canvas
56 x 46 cm
Musée d’Orsay, paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/le-berceau-1132

Mary Cassatt
(1844 - 1926)
 

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cassatt

Children in a Garden (The Nurse)
1878
Oil on canvas
81 x 65.4 cm
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/53883/children-in-a-garden-the-nurse?idx=67

Peter Paul Rubens
 (1577–1640)
 

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens

Two Sleeping Children


c. 1612-13
Oil on canvas
65.5 × 50.5 cm
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

 

The two innocent sleeping children seen here are thought to be Clara and Philip, the children of Rubens's elder brother. This elder brother, Philip, was extremely close to Rubens and he died in 1611. He left two children, born in 1610 and 1611, and Rubens is thought to have created this study from his deep regard for his brother. Judging from the ages of the children, this work is thought to have been painted around 1612/1613. Rubens later used the faces of these two children in large-scale paintings in oils, respectively the Madonna in Floral Wreath (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) and the Madonna and the Angels (Musée du Louvre, Paris). 

Frederic Leighton
(1830 - 1896)
 

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA, known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter in an academic style. His paintings were enormously popular and expensive, during his lifetime, but fell out of critical favour for many decades in the early 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Leighton

Cymon and Iphigenia
1884
Oil on canvas.
63 × 328 cm.
Private collection
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/210.1976/

 

Based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, the painting depicts a scene from the first tale of day five; Iphigenia is sleeping in the woods and Cymon, a young nobleman, stands gazing at her beauty which fills him with inspiration. After seeing her, Cymon changes from a badly mannered lout to an ideal polymath.