Perugino (c.1446-1523) San Sebastiano (St Sebastian) 1493–1494 Tempera, oil on linden panel, 53.8 x 39.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Sebastian was a Roman soldier who served in the private guard of the Emperor Diocletian. For his faith in the teachings…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna delle Grazie (Our Lady of Grace) 1st half of the 16th century Oil on canvas Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Napoléon en Egypte (Napoleon in Egypt) 1863 Oil on panel, 21 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg General Bonaparte with his Headquarters in Egypt. A Sketch. Compare: Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Napoléon en Egypte 1867–1868 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton …
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nature morte avec des tournesols sur un fauteuil (Still Life with Sunflowers on an armchair) 1901 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In 1901, when this painting was produced, Gauguin was still living…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Paysage avec un cheval mort (Landscape with a Dead Horse) 2nd half of the 1850s Oil on canvas, 45 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Its subject marked by the influence of Romanticism is full of mystery.…
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) Adoration of the Magi 2nd half of the 16th century Oil on canvas, 36 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Peter Brueghel the Younger based this painting on a work by his father, the great…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Pink and Gold: The Neapolitan 1897 Oil on canvas, 50 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Carmen Rossi, the sitter of this small portrait, was an Italian girl who posed for Whistler as a child and…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ritratto di dama con cagnolino (Portrait of a Woman with a Dog) c.1560–1570 Oil on canvas, 105 x 79 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Along with Titian and Tintoretto, Paolo Caliari — known as Veronese — was one of…
Raffaello (1483-1520) and Collaborator Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1518–1519 Oil on panel, 43.8 x 29 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This portrait was acquired from the Julius Böhler gallery in Berlin in December 1928 as a work by…
Post, Frans (1612-1680) Plantation Settlement in Brazil 1656 Oil on panel, 36.9 x 54 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection This panoramic view of a plantation settlement in Brazil was recollected by Frans Post one dozen years after he had…