Artist

Benoit Audran, I

1661–1721

132681

Works

Years lived

Painter

Style

Benoit’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Selected works

132681 pieces

Charles I, King of England

Benoît Audran I (French, 1661-1721) after Adriaen van der Werff (Dutch, 1659-1722)

Elevator Grille from the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois

Louis H. Sullivan American, 1856-1924

Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: Artist's commentary

Lan Ying (Chinese, 1585-c. 1664)

Elements of Composite Armor

German or Austrian

Slip of the Tongue

Nairy Baghramian German, born Iran, 1971

Frère Blaise Feuillan

Benoît Audran II (French, 1698-1772) possibly after a drawing by Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) after a painting by François de Troy (French, 1645-1730)

Design: Proportions of the Farnese Hercules, from Encyclopédie

Benoît-Louis Prévost (French, c. 1735-1809) published by André le Breton (French, 1708-1779), Michel-Antoine David (French, c. 1707-1769), Laurent Durand (French, 1712-1763), and Antoine-Claude Briasson (French, 1700-1775)

Handle Spout Vessel Depicting Anal Sex

Moche North coast, Peru

Cruet Set

John Delmester English, active 1755-c. 1763 London, England

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro II as Soga no Goro and Nakamura Takesaburo I as Kewaizaka no Shosho in the play "Bando Ichi Kotobuki Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1715

Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729

The Month of June/The Sign of Cancer, from The Grotesque Months

After a design by Claude III Audran (1658–1734), 1708–09 Woven at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins France, Paris

The Actor Shinomiya Heihachi I

Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729

The Actor Hanaoka Miyako

Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729

The Actor Nakamura Denkuro I

Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729

A Hawk Capturing a Crane in Flight

Attributed to Torii Kiyomasu I Japanese, active c. 1704–18 (?)

The Fifth Month, a Set of Three (Gogatsu sambukutsui), from the series "Twelve Months by the Twin Brushes of Toyohiro and Toyokuni (Toyohiro Toyokuni ryoga juni ko)"

Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代歌川豊国 Japanese, 1769–1825

Gathering shell fish at low tide

Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代歌川豊国 Japanese, 1769–1825

The Actor Takii Hannosuke as an effeminate youth

Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I Japanese, 1664-1729

Young woman and gibbon

Torii Kiyomitsu I Japanese, 1735-1785

Evening Bell of Dojoji (Dojoji no bansho), no. 1 from the series "Eight Views of Children (Osana hakkei)"

Torii Kiyomitsu I Japanese, 1735-1785