art in detail: featured love paintings

Art in Detail

Featured Love Paintings

These paintings are beloved around the world. The passion and dedication by each painter

is evident with each brushstroke....

CHAGALL, Marc The Birthday

Love lifts them up so their feet scarcely touch the ground.This is a vision of wild and sensual love, but also of transcendent adoration.

CHAGALL, Marc The Birthday1915Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 80.5 cmMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City

CHAGALL, Marc The Birthday (detail)1915Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 80.5 cmMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City

CHAGALL, Marc The Birthday (detail)1915Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 80.5 cmMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City

CHAGALL, Marc The Birthday (detail)1915Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 80.5 cmMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City

CHAGALL, Marc The Birthday (detail)1915Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 80.5 cmMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City

Klimt, Gustav Adam and Eve

Gustav Klimt depicts a voluptuous Eve standing in a bed of anemones, silhouetted against a leopard’s skin — quite literally overshadowing her mate, Adam.

Klimt, Gustav Adam and Eve1917 - 1918Oil on canvas,  173 × 60 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt, Gustav Adam and Eve (detail)1917 - 1918Oil on canvas,  173 × 60 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt, Gustav Adam and Eve (detail)1917 - 1918Oil on canvas,  173 × 60 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt, Gustav Adam and Eve (detail)1917 - 1918Oil on canvas,  173 × 60 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt, Gustav Adam and Eve (detail)1917 - 1918Oil on canvas,  173 × 60 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt, Gustav Adam and Eve (detail)1917 - 1918Oil on canvas,  173 × 60 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt, Gustav Adam and Eve (detail)1917 - 1918Oil on canvas,  173 × 60 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

LEIGHTON, Frederic The Fisherman And The Syren

British artist Frederic Leighton was inspired by a poem from the German writer Goethe in this striking painting of the fatal seduction of a fisherman by a deadly siren.  

LEIGHTON, Frederic The Fisherman And The Syren1856–1858 Oil on canvas, 66.4 x 48.9 cm Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

LEIGHTON, Frederic The Fisherman And The Syren (detail)1856–1858 Oil on canvas, 66.4 x 48.9 cm Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

LEIGHTON, Frederic The Fisherman And The Syren (detail)1856–1858 Oil on canvas, 66.4 x 48.9 cm Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

LEIGHTON, Frederic The Fisherman And The Syren (detail)1856–1858 Oil on canvas, 66.4 x 48.9 cm Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

ROSSETTI, Dante GabrielRegina Cordium

Rossetti began work on the piece shortly after he and Elizabeth Siddal married. The title means “the Queen of Hearts” in Latin.

ROSSETTI, Dante GabrielRegina Cordium 1866Oil on canvas,  59.7 x 49.5 cm Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

ROSSETTI, Dante GabrielRegina Cordium (detail)1866Oil on canvas,  59.7 x 49.5 cm Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

ROSSETTI, Dante GabrielRegina Cordium (detail)1866Oil on canvas,  59.7 x 49.5 cm Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

ROSSETTI, Dante GabrielRegina Cordium (detail)1866Oil on canvas,  59.7 x 49.5 cm Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

ROSSETTI, Dante GabrielRegina Cordium (detail)1866Oil on canvas,  59.7 x 49.5 cm Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

KAHLO, Frida Self-Portrait as a Tehuana

Diego's miniature portrait on her brow indicates Frida's obsessive love for the fresco painter….he is always in her thoughts. The roots of the leaves which she wears in her hair suggest the pattern of a spider's web in which she seeks to trap her prey... Diego.

KAHLO, Frida Self-Portrait as a Tehuana 1943Oil on masonite, 61 x 76 cmJacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Mexico City

KAHLO, Frida Self-Portrait as a Tehuana (detail)1943Oil on masonite, 61 x 76 cmJacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Mexico City

KAHLO, Frida Self-Portrait as a Tehuana (detail)1943Oil on masonite, 61 x 76 cmJacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Mexico City

KAHLO, Frida Self-Portrait as a Tehuana (detail)1943Oil on masonite, 61 x 76 cmJacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Mexico City

KAHLO, Frida Self-Portrait as a Tehuana (detail)1943Oil on masonite, 61 x 76 cmJacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Mexico City

Klimt, GustavThe Kiss

This painting beautifully depicts an intimate moment in shimmering yellows and golds.

Hard to believe that, when this artwork was first exhibited, it caused a scandal and was regarded as pornographic.

Klimt, GustavThe Kiss 1907 - 1908Oil on canvas, 180 x 180 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt, GustavThe Kiss (detail)1907 - 1908Oil on canvas, 180 x 180 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt, GustavThe Kiss (detail)1907 - 1908Oil on canvas, 180 x 180 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt, GustavThe Kiss (detail)1907 - 1908Oil on canvas, 180 x 180 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Klimt, GustavThe Kiss (detail)1907 - 1908Oil on canvas, 180 x 180 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

MANET, EdouardAt Père Lathuille

The subject Manet had chosen was a gigolo of prepossessing air seducing a much older woman under the ironic eye of the waiter.

MANET, EdouardAt Père Lathuille1879Oil on canvas, 93 x 112 cmMusée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai

MANET, EdouardAt Père Lathuille (detail)1879Oil on canvas, 93 x 112 cmMusée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai

MANET, EdouardAt Père Lathuille (detail)1879Oil on canvas, 93 x 112 cmMusée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai

MANET, EdouardAt Père Lathuille (detail)1879Oil on canvas, 93 x 112 cmMusée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai

MANET, EdouardAt Père Lathuille (detail)1879Oil on canvas, 93 x 112 cmMusée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai

RENOIR, Pierre-AugusteThe Swing

In this delightful outdoor artwork Renoir captures a snapshot of a demure flirtation.

RENOIR, Pierre-AugusteThe Swing1876Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

RENOIR, Pierre-AugusteThe Swing (detail)1876Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

RENOIR, Pierre-AugusteThe Swing (detail)1876Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

RENOIR, Pierre-AugusteThe Swing (detail)1876Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

CHAGALL, MarcDreamer

Chagall’s Dreamer was completed just one year after the death of his wife, Bella.

As a bride and groom float above a basket of fruit, a traditional symbol of youth and fertility, a couple of lovers lay beneath it, having consummated their love. The image of a goat symbolizes vitality—an affirmation of life despite death’s recent triumph.

CHAGALL, MarcDreamer1945Oil on canvasDixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

CHAGALL, MarcDreamer (detail)1945Oil on canvasDixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

CHAGALL, MarcDreamer (detail)1945Oil on canvasDixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

CHAGALL, MarcDreamer (detail)1945Oil on canvasDixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

CHAGALL, MarcDreamer (detail)1945Oil on canvasDixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

CHAGALL, MarcDreamer (detail)1945Oil on canvasDixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis

Art in Detail_Featured Love Paintings

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