Genre
Intimate
Intimacy shrinks the world to arm’s reach: a letter half-read, a child dressed, two heads bent close in lamplight. The intimist painters made a whole programme of it, finding in the domestic interior a subject as serious as any altarpiece — the unguarded moment, seen as if through a half-open door.
Key artists
Works
The Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter
Susanna Truax
The Lacemaker
The Love Letter
The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons Alexis and Adrien
The Letter
A Young Woman and a Cavalier
Parochialstrasse in Berlin
The Cup of Tea
Young Mother Sewing
Untitled
Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter
Young Woman Knitting
Card Players in a Drawing Room
A Kitchen
A Hunter with a Dog
In the Studio (Gari Melchers and Hugo Reisinger)
Father, Mother, and Child in a Park
Untitled
Marion Feasting the British Officer on Sweet Potatoes
The Hoppner Children
The Highland Family
Tea Leaves
The Card Players
Untitled
Nuns at Work
The Temptation
Young Mother Gazing at Her Child
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Grandmother's Treasure
Naval Officer
Street Group
The Serbian Concubine (Un Envoi de Serbie)
The Music Room
White Mules on a Bridge
A Village Street: Dardagny
Princess Pauline Metternich (1836–1921) on the Beach
First Steps
The Newborn Baby
The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"
Interior with Paintings and a Pheasant
The Happy Mother
Odalisque
Children in Woods
Itinerant Actors
Mother and Child
Charity
Andromache and Astyanax
Untitled
The Visit
A Woman Ironing
Louise
Rubens Peale with a Geranium
Child Wearing a Red Scarf
The prince, having deprived the snake of its natural food, a frog, feeds it with a piece of his own flesh, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
Ducks and Reeds
Operating on Guan Yu's Arm
Masons Squaring a Block, Tomb of Rekhmire
Tyrolese Interior
Carpenters at Work, Tomb of Rekhmire
The Japanese Robe
Retreat from the Storm
Woman with a Mirror (Femme qui se mire)
源氏物語画帖|The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari)
The Dining Room, Vernonnet
Psyche
Masqueraders
In the Studio
The Cigarette (Jeanne Daurmont)
A Window at Night
Snake Charmer at Tangier, Africa
Reverie
Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass
Jungle Tales (Contes de la Jungle)
Untitled
源氏物語画帖「玉鬘」|“A Lovely Garland” (Tamakazura), from The Tale of Genji
The Lute Player
The Lovers
Denise at Her Dressing Table
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Courtesan and Attendant Playing with a Dog
View of Lateran, Rome
In the Garden
The Palace of Aurora
The Cup of Love
The Third Princess and a Cat, from the "New Herbs I" (Wakana I) chapter The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari}
A Discussion
Cooking Cakes with Fat, Tomb of Rekhmire
Woman and Child under a Cherry Tree
Dancers Practicing at the Barre
The Letter
The Dancers
Awaiting the Reply
The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Virgins
Little Girl in Lavender
Charity
The Ragan Sisters
Officers and other civic guardsmen of the XIth District of Amsterdam, under the command of Captain Geurt Dircksz van Beuningen and Lieutenant Pieter Martensz Hoeffijser
The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge
Mother and Child
Man Making Leather Rope, Tomb of Rekhmire
Scenes from The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari)
Conversation
Geraldine Russell
Frieze with Male Figures and Two Horses
Untitled
Madame Thadée Natanson (Misia Godebska, 1872–1950) at the Theater
Section of Jin'o-ji Engi Emaki (Konin Shonin E-den)
Two Young Girls at the Piano
Fan
Syrians Bringing an Elephant and a Bear, Tomb of Rekhmire
Roundel with Sorgheloos ("Carefree") with Easy Fortune
Girl with a Kitten
Foreigners, Tomb of Menkheperraseneb
The Dream after the Ball
The Trousseau
“Mistflowers” (Fujibakama)
Luncheon
Penelope
Two Women and a Puppy
“A Branch of Sacred Evergreen” (Sakaki), from the Phantom Genji Scrolls (Maboroshi no Genji monogatari emaki)
Guests at a Banquet
The Warrior Asahina Yoshihide Lifting a Puppet of a Courtesan on a Go Board
Woman Holding Fruit
Stringing and Drilling Beads, Tomb of Rekhmire
Courtesans Parodying Kanzan and Jittoku
Imperial Framed Miniature of Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna
Five Poses of Krishna Making Love, from a Bikaner Bhagavata Purana
Krishna weighed against precious objects(?) (verso), from a Kalighat album
Krishna Abhisarika Nayika, from a Rasikapriya manuscript
Krishna Stroking Radha's Feet (verso), from a Kalighat album
Yusuf and Zulaykha meeting
Worship of the Infant Krishna, from a Kalighat album
Radha and Krishna's Reconciliation
Krishna Under a Canopy
Leaf from a Kalighat album: Maid bringing a hookah to a lady (recto); Krishna weighed against precious objects(?) (verso)
Krishna and Balarama Touching the Feet of Vasudeva and Devaki
Princely ascetic in the forest visited by ladies
A woman with two children, having abandoned her home, goes into the forest where she encounters a leopard, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirtieth Night
Krishna Awaiting Radha
Raja Chattar Singh smoking
Yasoda Taking the Infant Krishna for a Walk
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-ninth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Radha and Krishna Caught in a Storm
A Woman Putting Flowers in Her Hair
Woman with a Dog
Lærerinde og elev
The old inn
Josefa Manzanedo e Intentas de Mitjans, Second Marchioness of Manzanedo
Landing in Venice. In the Distance S. Maria delle Salute
Two Girls on a Lawn
Eye Miniature
Mother and daughter
Woman in the Garden of Monsieur Forest
The Brine Maiden Matsukaze
The Sisters
Snuffbox
Gathering Honey, Tomb of Rekhmire
Armorial Roundel
Head of a Child
The Curious Little Girl
Woman with Battledore and Shuttlecock
The Album
Two Princesses
Seated Woman
Courtesan and Attendant in Early Spring
Roundel with Playing at Quintain
Woman on Veranda
The family of the Duke of Penthièvre called la tasse de chocolat
The Lacemaker
Study of Figures for "La Grande Jatte"
Corot's Studio: Woman Seated Before an Easel, a Mandolin in her Hand
At the Edge of the Forest (Edma and Jeanne)
Two Studies of an Indian from Calcutta, Seated and Standing
Trompe l'Oeil of an Etching by Ferdinand Bol
Maternity
Woman at Her Toilette
Possibly Mrs. William Sheldon
Before the Ballet
Little Girl in White (Queenie Burnett)
Singing a Pathetic Song
Cora Livingston
The Sportsman's Dream
My Family
The Early Scholar
Family Group
The Cheney Family
Three Figures Dressed for a Masquerade
The Naturalists
Hide and Seek
Penelope
The Seamstress
Two Studies of a Standing Indian from Calcutta
Sisters in Blue
Four Dancers
Study for "The Dancing Lesson": The Boy
Young Woman and Man
Abraham Clark and His Children
Sketch of a Woman
Repast in a Garden
Frequently asked questions
What is Intimate?
Intimate is a mood in painting. Intimacy shrinks the world to arm’s reach: a letter half-read, a child dressed, two heads bent close in lamplight.
How many Intimate works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 10,744 public-domain Intimate works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Intimate artists?
Key Intimate artists in the collection include Thomas Eakins, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot and Edgar Degas.