Which earlier artists did Pablo Picasso revisit in his late works?

In his later years, Pablo Picasso frequently engaged with the history of art by creating variations on the works of his predecessors. He was driven by the challenge of reinterpreting the complex pictorial and narrative problems posed by earlier masters, effectively writing himself into the artistic canon through these associations.1

Artists he revisited include:

• Albrecht Altdorfer1
• Édouard Manet1
• Rembrandt1
• Eugène Delacroix, notably his work Femmes d’Alger1
• Gustave Courbet1
• Diego Velázquez, whose masterpiece Las Meninas inspired a famous series of 58 variations by Picasso1

Picasso’s motivation for these reinterpretations varied; at times he identified personally with the subject matter, while at other times he was simply compelled by the technical and creative hurdles presented by the original works.1