Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 Oil on canvas, 48.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Standing in the brilliant sunlight of midday, a young woman blows a metal horn to summon the farmhands in the nearby…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn c.1870 Oil on panel, 14.29 x 22.86 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Compare: Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 National Gallery of Art, Washington Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn 1870 Art Institute…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Aeneas in the underworld s.d. Oil on oak panel, 47 x 32 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • The Aeneid (English) | Virgil (70 BC-19 BC)
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) La Découverte de Moïse (The Finding of Moses) 1651 Oil on canvas, 117 x 178.2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Pichet gothique aux femmes (Gothic pitcher with women) 1948 Terracotta, 32 x 21.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Les étoiles filantes (The shooting stars) 1847–1849 Oil on board, 18.7 x 34.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This purely imaginary subject is unusual among Millet’s works. It refers to Dante‘s ‘Inferno‘ which in one section describes the…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Jephthah 1867 Oil on canvas, 127 x 162.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Guercino (1591-1666) Agonia nell’orto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1640–1646 Oil on canvas, 232.1 x 162.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) L’Immortalité (Immortality) 1889 Oil on canvas, 116.2 x 87.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The personification of Immortality holds the palm of victory and scatters flowers onto a tomb inscribed ‘DELACROIX’. Behind, the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Femme au bain (Woman at the bath) c.1900 Pastel on paper, 74.9 x 65 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff