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Chiaroscuro
Browse works with dramatic light-dark contrast, tenebrism, and strongly modeled illumination. This composition page currently surfaces 107 works by 74 artists across 27 institutions. It blends museum tags, public collections, and vision-detected chiaroscuro, dark backgrounds, and dramatic illumination.
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Artists with this composition
Unknown artist
8 works surfaced for this composition.
José Clemente Orozco
5 works surfaced for this composition.
Arthur B. Davies
4 works surfaced for this composition.
Henri Matisse
4 works surfaced for this composition.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
3 works surfaced for this composition.
Katsushika Hokusai
3 works surfaced for this composition.
Artist unknown (American, 19th century)
2 works surfaced for this composition.
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
2 works surfaced for this composition.
Museums with this composition
Museum of Modern Art
22 works surfaced for this composition.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
16 works surfaced for this composition.
Cleveland Museum of Art
8 works surfaced for this composition.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
7 works surfaced for this composition.
Art Institute of Chicago
6 works surfaced for this composition.
Library of Congress
6 works surfaced for this composition.
Statens Museum for Kunst
6 works surfaced for this composition.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
4 works surfaced for this composition.
Works with this composition

Dark cherries by Thiebaud, Wayne, artist.
Thiebaud, Wayne, artist. · 1984-01-01
Library of Congress · photo, print, drawing

The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Volume 5: America Discovered (Anthologia internazionale dell'incisione contemporanea: L'Avanguardia internazionale: Volume 5: Scoperta dell'America)
Allan Kaprow, Lette Eisenhauer, Red Grooms, Allan D'Arcangelo, Boris Lurie,…
Museum of Modern Art · Album of 16 etchings (one with aquatint,…

Selvportræt
Henri Matisse · Værkdatering: (1906)
Statens Museum for Kunst · Lærred

The Subway
José Clemente Orozco · 1928
Museum of Modern Art · Oil on canvas

Circuit
Richard Serra · 1972
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph

Round porcelain inkstone in moon-white glaze (with a jade-inlaid case)
Unknown artist · 明 西元1368-1644年
National Palace Museum · 文具

Pineapple. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)
Diego Rivera · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Watercolor, pencil, and colored pencil on paper

Ot kubizma i futurizma k suprematizmu. Novyi zhivopisnyi realizm (From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: New Painterly Realism)
Kazimir Malevich · 1916
Museum of Modern Art · Book with three photolithographed illustrations (including cover)

La retaguardia
José Clemente Orozco · 1929
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Lithograph

Saint Ildefonso
El Greco · c. 1603/1614
National Gallery of Art · oil on canvas

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Oil on canvas

The Basket of Apples
Paul Cezanne · c. 1893
Art Institute of Chicago · Oil on canvas

Bordighera
Claude Monet · 1884
Art Institute of Chicago · Oil on canvas

Armor Parts
Myōchin Muneaki · Edo period, 1721
Tokyo National Museum · Forged iron with gilding

"Kogai" (Hairdressing implement), Tea ceremony utensil design
the Goto school · Muromachi period, 16th century
Tokyo National Museum · Arms & Armor
Blade for a Short Sword ("Kodachi")
Kunimune · Kamakura period, 13th century
Tokyo National Museum · Arms & Armor

Courtesan Somenosuke of the Matsubaya (Matsubaya uchi Somenosuke), from the series "Beauties of the Yoshiwara" (Seirō bijin awase)
Eishōsai Chōki · Mid to Late Edo period, circa 1780-1805
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink,…

Angle-Shouldered Bottle with Small Mouth
Unknown artist · mid 18th century
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Chosŏn white ware: porcelain with light blue…

Standing Buddha
Unknown artist · 7th-8th century
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Light gray limestone (known as greenstone); Mon-Gupta…

Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene
Georges de La Tour and Studio · ca. 1638-39
Seattle Art Museum · Oil on canvas

Baboon and Young
Pablo Picasso · 1951
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Bronze

South Wind, Clear Weather
Katsushika Hokusai · 1830–33
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on…

Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1820
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Oil on canvas

Portrait of Lucia Wijbrants
Gabriël Metsu · 1667
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Oil on panel

Adeline Ravoux
Vincent van Gogh · 1890
Cleveland Museum of Art · oil on fabric

Poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, from One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by an Old Nurse
Katsushika Hokusai · 1835–36
Cleveland Museum of Art · color woodblock print

Hokusai hyaku monogatari no uchi gomai by Katsushika
Katsushika · 1831
Library of Congress · photo, print, drawing

Kohada Koheiji, from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 · 1831-32
Art Institute of Chicago · Color woodblock print; chuban

South Wind, Clear Dawn (Gaifu kaisei), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1830-32
Seattle Art Museum · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Bun’ya no Yasuhide, from the series Portraits of Six Poets
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1809–10
Yale University Art Gallery · Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print

The Seven Gods of Good Fortune (shichifuku-jin) celebrate the New Year
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai · 1809 (year of the snake)
Yale University Art Gallery · Surimono, horizontal chū-ban; polychrome woodblock print with…

British, Neoclassical frame
unknown framemaker · 20th century
Yale Center for British Art · Wood and compo, oil gilt

Platter
Tapio Wirkkala · 1951
Museum of Modern Art · Plywood

Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy
François Boucher · 1740s
Cleveland Museum of Art · oil on canvas

AW:AB=L:MD from Insicuro Noncurante
Alighiero Boetti · 1966-75
Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of eighty two…

Dark Evening (Finsterer Abend)
Vassily Kandinsky (also called Vasilij Kandinskij; Wassily Kandinsky) · 1903
Chazen Museum of Art · Woodcut
![Lightly Touching [also known as "Lightly Touched"] (Leicht berührt) by Vasily Kandinsky](/api/artwork-image/moma-37596/vasily-kandinsky-lightly-touching-also-known-as-lightly-touched-leicht-beruhrt-museum-of-modern-art.webp?q=72&w=2048)
Lightly Touching [also known as "Lightly Touched"] (Leicht berührt)
Vasily Kandinsky · 1931
Museum of Modern Art · Oil on board

Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Kazimir Malevich · 1914
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph

Odalisque, Enslaved Woman, and Eunuch
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1839-1840
Fogg Museum · Oil on canvas

Male Torso
José Clemente Orozco · (1923)
Museum of Modern Art · Crayon on brown paper

Drawing, IBA Lützowstrasse Social Housing Competition, Berlin, Germany
Office for Metropolitan Architecture · 1980
M+ Museum · oil on paper

Plate (supplementary suite) from Manifeste Mystique (Mystic Manifesto)
Salvador Dalí · 1951
Museum of Modern Art · Etching from the supplementary suite of an…

automatic centre-fire pistol
Deutsche Waffen und Munitions Fabriken · 1916
Canadian War Museum · steel, wood

Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods
Édouard Vuillard · 1899
Art Institute of Chicago · Oil on canvas

Fire in the Evening
Paul Klee · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Oil on cardboard

Shabnam Adiban
Adiban, Shabnam · 06/09/23 02:29:37 PM UTC
Princeton Digital PUL · Ephemera

Beauty Painting
Suzuki Harunobu · Edo period, 18th century
Tokyo National Museum · Painting

Kilta Tableware
Kaj Franck · 1948
Museum of Modern Art · Glazed earthenware

A radiant female figure beset by dark spirits; page 45 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1812–20
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Brush and point of brush, brown…

Hell: On the Edge of the Seventh Circle (Canto 11)
Salvador Dalí · c. 1960
Dallas Museum of Art · Woodcut

¡Qual la descañonan!
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1797–98
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Etching and aquatint

Marthe aan haar ontbijt
Pierre Bonnard · 1877 - 1947
Rijksmuseum · houtskool, geel en mauve krijt

The Serf
Henri Matisse · 1900-1903
Fogg Museum · Bronze

Portrait of Ambrose Vollard, II
Pablo Picasso · 1937 (printed and published 1939)
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Sugar-lift, with aquatint and spit-bite etching

Maternité
Edouard Vuillard · Værkdatering: 1896
Statens Museum for Kunst · Litografi

Clenched Fist
José Clemente Orozco · (1948)
Museum of Modern Art · Crayon and charcoal on paper

Untitled
Isamu Noguchi · 1946
Museum of Modern Art · Pencil on cut-out-and-pasted graph paper on black…

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Oil on canvas

George Maciunas' In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti, performed during Concert No. 5, Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, September 8, 1962
Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Emmett Williams, George Maciunas, Benjamin…
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Armchair
Charles Eames · 1971
Museum of Modern Art · Molded polyester, aluminum base, padded naugahyde with…

Aften i stuen
Vilhelm Hammershøi · Værkdatering: (1904)
Statens Museum for Kunst · Lærred

Interior with Pink Wallpaper I
Édouard Vuillard · 1899
Cleveland Museum of Art · color lithograph

Portræt af Anna Ancher, profil
P.S. Krøyer · Værkdatering: 1898
Statens Museum for Kunst · Koldnålsradering

Portræt af Madame Matisse. Den grønne stribe
Henri Matisse · Værkdatering: (1905)
Statens Museum for Kunst · Lærred

Composition in Brown and Gray
Piet Mondrian · 1913
Museum of Modern Art · Oil on canvas

La Bandera
José Clemente Orozco · 1928
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Lithograph

Le Dedans & Le Dehors
Joan Miró · 1966
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Color etching with aquatint

Reclining Nude II
Henri Matisse · 1927
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Bronze

Before the Ballet
Degas, Edgar · 1890/1892
National Gallery of Art · oil on canvas

10 Origin
Georges Vantongerloo, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Alberto Magnelli, Richard Paul Lohse, Léo…
Museum of Modern Art · Portfolio of six linoleum cuts, three woodcuts,…

John Broughton
John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779 · ca. 1767
Yale Center for British Art · Oil on canvas

Navin Party
Navin Rawanchaikul · 2006
Cincinnati Art Museum · color lithograph and screen print with blind embossing…

Sonny Rollins
Richard Serra · 1999
Museum of Modern Art · Etching

Dagens arbejde bedømmes
Anna Ancher · Værkdatering: 1883
Statens Museum for Kunst · Lærred

Cremorne Gardens, No. 2
James McNeill Whistler · ca. 1870–80
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Oil on canvas

Copy of Yosa Buson's Illustrated Scroll of Oku no Hosomichi(The Narrow Road through the Provinces)
Yokoi Kinkoku · Edo
Kyoto National Museum · Painting

Bell Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Scene from a Comic Play
The McDaniel Painter · 400-370 BCE
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Terracotta

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Oil on canvas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Oil on canvas

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Cassatt, Mary · 1878
National Gallery of Art · oil on canvas

The Laugh
Umberto Boccioni · 1911
Museum of Modern Art · Oil on canvas

Page of Enlightenment from The Ossified Theosophied
Trenton Doyle Hancock · 2005
Museum of Modern Art · Etching and aquatint colophon from a portfolio…

Page of Enlightenment
Trenton Doyle Hancock
RISD Museum

Pair of Dolls
Unknown artist · 1900s
Cleveland Museum of Art · Wood, kaolin, and paint
![[Sculpture of a nude by an unknown artist], 1880-01-01 by Unknown artist](/api/artwork-image/loc-item-2006680388/unknown-artist-sculpture-of-a-nude-by-an-unknown-artist-1880-01-01-library-of-congress.webp?q=72&w=2048)
[Sculpture of a nude by an unknown artist], 1880-01-01
Unknown artist · 1880-01-01
Library of Congress · photo, print, drawing

Face Jug
Artist unknown (American, 19th century) · c. 1860
Art Institute of Chicago · Stoneware and alkaline glaze

Mrs. Charles Donald McNeill (Martha Kingsley)
Artist unknown (American, 19th century) · 1800–3
Art Institute of Chicago · Watercolor on ivory
![[Two restrikes by unknown artists], 1790 by Unknown artist](/api/artwork-image/loc-item-2006689639/unknown-artist-two-restrikes-by-unknown-artists-1790-library-of-congress.webp?q=72&w=2048)
[Two restrikes by unknown artists], 1790
Unknown artist · 1790
Library of Congress · photo, print, drawing
![An artist (unknown), Ulaanbaatar [1940s] by Unknown artist](/api/artwork-image/europeana-%2F2059209%2FEAP264_1_8_12_78/unknown-artist-an-artist-unknown-ulaanbaatar-1940s-the-british-library.webp?q=72&w=2048)
An artist (unknown), Ulaanbaatar [1940s]
Unknown artist
The British Library · Images of people caught during national celebrations and…
![[Huerta As Spider, by an unknown artist], [no date recorded on caption card] by Unknown artist](/api/artwork-image/loc-item-2003656154/unknown-artist-huerta-as-spider-by-an-unknown-artist-no-date-recorded-on-caption-card-library-of-congress.webp?q=72&w=2048)
[Huerta As Spider, by an unknown artist], [no date recorded on caption card]
Unknown artist · [no date recorded on caption card]
Library of Congress · photo, print, drawing

Dancing Sailors
Charles Demuth · 1917
Cleveland Museum of Art · watercolor over graphite

Circling Doves
Artist: Arthur B. Davies · 1922
Yale University Art Gallery · Colored lithograph

Study of a Young Girl
Arthur B. Davies · c. 1920
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Graphite, brown and white chalk on light…

Doorway to Illusion
Arthur B. Davies · 1919 (printed 1929)
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Soft-ground etching and aquatint

Moonlight on the Grassy Bank
Arthur B. Davies · 1919
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Soft-ground etching and aquatint with drypoint and…

Nocturne
Arthur B. Davies · 1918–19
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Soft-ground etching on green paper

A Bearded Man Wearing a Hat
Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1655–60
Cleveland Museum of Art · oil on canvas

Y aun no se van!
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1797–98
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Etching and aquatint

Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves: 'The Three Crosses'
Rembrandt van Rijn · 1653-c.1660
Cleveland Museum of Art · drypoint

Portrait of a Man ("The Auctioneer")
Rembrandt · probably ca. 1658–62
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Oil on canvas

The Photojournalist
Andreas Feininger · 1951
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Gelatin silver print

Saint Jerome
El Greco · c. 1610/1614
National Gallery of Art · oil on canvas

Estudo de cabeça masculina
Autoria não identificada ; · Data textual: século XVIII ;
Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo · óleo sobre tela

The Dawn
John La Farge · 1899
Fogg Museum · Oil on canvas
![[Rosalinde Fuller in the film, "The Way"] by Francis Bruguière](/api/artwork-image/getty-object%2F251170c1-6e9f-4db5-a2a8-fc9c18403e96/francis-bruguiere-rosalinde-fuller-in-the-film-the-way-j-paul-getty-museum.webp?q=72&w=2048)
[Rosalinde Fuller in the film, "The Way"]
Francis Bruguière · 1923–1925
J. Paul Getty Museum · Gelatin silver print

Étude Macabre
Francis Bruguière · negative 1923–1925; print 1926
J. Paul Getty Museum · Collotype

Self-portrait
steichen, edward · 1903-01-01
Library of Congress · photo, print, drawing