Guercino (1591-1666) Cristo morto compianto dagli angeli (Dead Christ mourned by Two Angels) c.1617–1618 Oil on copper, 36.8 x 44.4 cm National Gallery, London This small painting depicts a solemn religious scene. Two angels kneel in quiet contemplation next to…
Guercino (1591-1666) Visione di sant’Agostino (Saint Augustine meditating on the Trinity) 1636 Oil on canvas, 185 x 166 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid According to this saint’s story, he was walking along the seaside meditating about the mystery of the…
Guercino (1591-1666) San Pietro liberato da un angelo (Saint Peter freed by an Angel) c.1622 Oil on canvas, 105 x 136 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A youthful looking angel with curly hair imperiously points out the path of freedom…
Guercino (1591-1666) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1617 Oil on canvas, 176 x 208 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Historian Denis Mahon has masterfully shown that this painting and two other famous works by Guercino –Lot and…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Three Peasants in Conversation c.1498 Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, 10.6 × 7.6 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) c.1875 Lithograph on off-white wove paper, 33.9 x 21.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Jules Peyron c.1885–1887 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 38.1 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin 1888 Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 50.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In early 1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles in the south of France, where he hoped to establish an…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) L’Homme à la toque (Man in a Toque, Self-Portrait) c.1875–1877 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 38.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Les Nymphes et le Satyre (Nymphs and Satyr) 1873 Oil on canvas, 260.4 x 182.9 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Three nymphs playfully drag a Satyr into a woodland pond, while a fourth calls to her companions…