Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister) 1891 Painted plaster, 39.2 x 20.3 x 19.3 cm Tate Britain, London The first purchaser of this work was Walter Butterworth, who in 1911 negotiated the purchase of three bronzes by Rodin…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) L’Esprit de géométrie (The Spirit of Geometry) 1937 Gouache on paper, 37.5 × 29.2 cm Tate Britain, London Magritte exchanges the heads of a mother and a baby – compressing one and enlarging the other. The effect is…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La Famille du peintre (The Painter’s Family) 1926 Oil on canvas, 146.4 × 114.9 cm Tate Britain, London In the mid-1920s de Chirico reworked many of the themes of his pre-war paintings in the light of his…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Triumph of the Innocents 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 156.2 x 254 cm Tate Britain, London Hunt began painting this subject while on a visit to the Holy Land in the 1870s. It shows Mary, Joseph and…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Study for the Christ Child in the Virgin’s Arms 1876 Chalk on paper, 50.8 x 5.6 cm Tate Britain, London Study for the Christ Child in the Virgin’s Arms for ‘The Triumph of the Innocents’ (first version). One…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Madonna col Bambino e l’Arcangelo Gabriele (Virgin and Child with the Archangel Gabriel and an Unidentified Saint) s.d. Oil on wood panel, 88.5 x 56 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Robbia, Luca della (1400-1482) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) s.d. Polychromed terracotta relief, 26 x 37 x 10.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) The Infant Hercules c.1785–1789 Oil on millboard, 25.5 × 21 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This is believed to be a preparatory sketch for a history painting commissioned by Catherine the Great, with the subject left to…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Adoración de los Reyes Magos (The Adoration of the Magi) c.1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 190.8 x 146.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Bartolomé Esteban Murillo became the leading painter in devoutly Catholic Seville, Spain, from…