Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Paysannes aux broussailles (Peasant Women with Brushwood) c.1852 Oil on canvas, 37.5 x 29.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Millet devoted his talent to the depiction of scenes from peasant life, and this is a typical example of his…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Ophelia 1851–1852 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 111.8 cm Tate Britain, London The scene depicted is from Shakespeare‘s Hamlet, Act IV, Scene vii. See also: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Watercolor over pencil, 36.8 x 47 cm Private collection Study: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Tate Britain, London See also: • Alighieri, Dante…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Ink on paper, 19 × 16.8 cm Tate Britain, London The medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri inspired some of Blake‘s and Rossetti‘s greatest pictures. They each saw Dante‘s writings…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Light of The World 1851–1856 Oil on canvas, 49.8 x 26.1 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Painting in the shape of an arched doorway. Standing at a wooden doorway with rusted hinges and overgrown with ivy and…
Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) La foire aux chevaux (The Horse Fair) 1852–1855 Oil on canvas, 244.5 x 506.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This, Bonheur’s best-known painting, shows the horse market held in Paris on the tree-lined Boulevard de l’Hôpital, near…
(1852–1924) Jeanne Constance Philippe Gonzalès The artist’s works: Portrait de Eva Gonzalès à Dieppe c.1880 Private collection Jeanne in Art: Gonzalès, Eva (1849-1883) Le bouquet de violettes c.1877–1878 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gonzalès, Eva (1849-1883) La Mariée…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Vue de Tanger (View of Tangier) 1852–1853 Oil on canvas, 45.09 x 54.61 cm Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis See also: • Tangier (Morocco)
(1852–1932) Σοφία Σλήμαν née Sophia Engastromenos, Σοφία Εγκαστρωμένου Born January 12 1852 Athens (Greece) Died October 27 1932 Athens (Greece) Husband (1869–1890) Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) Occupation Archaeologist
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Vol turc de femmes (Turkish Robbery of Women) 1852 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.5 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim