Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Woody Landscape c.1783–1784 Oil on canvas, 64 x 76.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Although most famous for his portraits, Gainsborough was also one of the originators of English landscape painting in the eighteenth century. Inspired by Dutch landscapes from…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Portrait of a Woman in Profile (possibly Saskia) c.1636 Oil on panel, 68.6 x 78.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Uylenburgh, Saskia van (1612-1642)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Madonna with the Dragonfly 1495 Engraving on paper, 24.8 x 18.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Donatello (1386-1466) & workshop Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1466 Terra cotta relief, in painted decor with gilt carved wood bracket, 56.5 x 40.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Donatello was the leading sculptor in Florence during the fifteenth century when…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Table plus cafetière (Table plus coffee pot) 1919 Graphite, tempera, and/or watercolor on paper, 17.8 x 24.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Design for a detail of the cut cloth, from “La Boutique Fantasque (The Fantastic Toy Shop)”.
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les Cousins du peintre (Double Portrait, The Cousins of the Painter) c.1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 58 x 75 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This portrait of Edgar Degas’s Italian cousins, Camilla and Elena Montejasi-Cicerale, is one of several that he…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La Maladie du Général (The General’s Disease) 1914–1915 Oil on canvas, 59.1 x 43.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les Saltimbanques (The Saltimbanques Changing Place) 1865 Chalk and watercolor on paper, 40.4 x 31.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Une ferme (A Farm) c.1860–1865 Oil on panel, 21.3 x 34.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) The Feast of Herod 1531 Oil on panel, 81.3 x 119.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford The biblical story of Salome was popular during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, when it was seen as a cautionary tale of…