Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Alessandro e Bucefalo (Alexander and Bucephalus) c.1757–1760 Oil on canvas, 58 x 34.7 cm Petit Palais, Paris One of the rare examples of Italian painting in the collections of the Petit Palais, this is a small canvas of…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-portrait in Oriental Costume 1631 Oil on panel, 63 x 56 cm Petit Palais, Paris Rembrandt has left us more self-portraits than any other artist in the world, around eighty (around forty paintings, nearly thirty engravings and seven drawings), not…
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Le Massacre des Innocents (The Massacre of the Innocents) 1626–1627 Oil on canvas, 97 x 131.7 cm Petit Palais, Paris The Gospel of St. Matthew tells the story of the Massacre of the Innocents. King Herod ordered the…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Diana Resting c.1640–1650 Oil on canvas, 123 x 159 cm Petit Palais, Paris Cézanne, who once said, “It is grotesque to imagine that we grow like a fungus, when we have all the generations behind us. Why not…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Three Trees 1643 Etching and drypoint, 21.1 x 27.8 cm Petit Palais, Paris Dominating the entire Dutch Golden age with his very strong artistic personality, Rembrandt has left not only a large number of paintings and drawings but also…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Large Landscape with Tower c.1651 Etching and drypoint, 12.3 x 31.3 cm Petit Palais, Paris In the field of landscape, it was Rembrandt who unquestionably captured with the greatest genius the highly particular essence of the Dutch countryside. This…
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) The Wedding Procession 1623 Oil on panel, 71.5 x 122 cm Petit Palais, Paris A long wedding procession makes its way along the main road of a village, from the centre of the parish, shown on…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Abduction of Proserpina c.1614–1615 Oil on canvas, 38 x 67 cm Petit Palais, Paris This study for a large-scale painting that once belonged in England in the collections of the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim Castle,…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Knight, Death and the Devil 1513 Burin engraving, 24.6 x 19 cm Petit Palais, Paris Dürer was a painter, drawer, art theoretician and a wood and copper engraver, and one of the greatest creative talents in Western Art.…
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) David Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy 1760–1761 Oil on canvas, 148 x 183 cm Private Collection See also: • Garrick, David (1717-1779)