Category: Works

Room Corner with Curiosities (1712)

Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) Room Corner with Curiosities 1712 Oil on canvas, 75 x 63.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Compare: Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) Corner of a Library 1711 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid     Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) Library Interior…

A View in Cologne (c.1660-1665)

Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) A View in Cologne c.1660–1665 Oil on oak, 33.1 x 42.9 cm National Gallery, London This is one of at least four versions that Jan van der Heyden made of this scene of Cologne and its half-built…

A Farm among Trees (c.1670)

Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) A Farm among Trees c.1670 Oil on oak, 22.1 x 28.8 cm National Gallery, London There is something rather mysterious about this rare – and tiny – landscape by Jan van der Heyden, who specialised in painting…

View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam (1660)

Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam probably 1660 Oil on oak, 90.7 x 114.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of the ultimate seventeenth-century examples of what today we might think of as a high-resolution image.…

Napoléon sur le champ de Bataille d’Eylau (1808)

Gros, Antoine-Jean (1771-1835) Napoléon sur le champ de Bataille d’Eylau (Napoleon on the battlefield of Eylau) 1808 Oil on canvas, 521 x 784 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Napoléon Bonaparte is shown on the battlefield of Eylau on February 9, 1807, the…

Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa (1804)

Gros, Antoine-Jean (1771-1835) Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa (Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa) 1804 Oil on canvas, 523 x 715 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Napoléon Bonaparte is shown visiting the plague victims of Jaffa (March 11, 1799). Mosque…

Bonaparte après la bataille de Marengo (1803)

Gros, Antoine-Jean (1771-1835) Bonaparte, Premier Consul, après la bataille de Marengo (Bonaparte, First Consul, after the battle of Marengo) 1803 Oil on canvas, 310 x 247 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris On deposit in the Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison…

Amazone (1820)

Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Amazone (Horsewoman) 1820 or later Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Géricault studied horses extensively throughout his life, and his stay in England in 1820–21 inspired a group of works representing elegant…

Le Soir, Paysage avec aqueduc (1818)

Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le Soir, Paysage avec aqueduc (Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct) 1818 Oil on canvas, 250.2 x 219.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work is one of a projected set of four monumental landscapes representing the times…

Lions dans un paysage montagneux (c.1818-1820)

Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Lions dans un paysage montagneux (Lions in a Mountainous Landscape) c.1818–1820 Oil on wood, 48.3 x 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This vigorous painting of six lions in a remote, spectrally illuminated lair—possibly intended to…