Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Le voleur du nid de moineaux (The Robber of the Sparrow’s Nest) c.1710 Oil on paper laid on canvas, laid on panel, 22.60 x 18.50 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Watteau shows a young couple in an idyllic woodland…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Virgin and Child with Saints Zacharias, Elizabeth and John the Baptist c.1620 Oil on canvas, 114 x 153 cm National Gallery, London We are watching an intimate family moment, apparently unnoticed. Two children are being introduced – they…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Extensive Landscape With Travellers on a Country Road c.1608–1610 Oil on copper, 33.6 x 46.4 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis From an elevated viewpoint we see the city of Antwerp at the distant right,…
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Giovane cavaliere in un paesaggio (Young Knight in a Landscape) c.1505 Oil on canvas, 218.5 x 151.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The canvas, signed and dated by Carpaccio on a cartellino to the right of the figure, was…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Woodcock Shooting on Otley Chevin 1813 Watercolour and gum varnish on paper, 28 x 39.8 cm Wallace Collection, London
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Macbeth, paysage (Macbeth, Landscape) 1858–1859 Oil on canvas, 111 x 135.7 cm Wallace Collection, London See also: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) c.1680–1685 Oil on canvas, 204 × 191.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Paradise Landscape with the Animals Entering Noah’s Ark c.1613–1615 Oil on oak, 61 × 90.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Prière à la mosquée (Prayer in the Mosque) 1874 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 74.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gérôme painted this scene, which depicts the interior of the seventh-century mosque of ‘Amr in Cairo, after…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Au conservatoire (At the Conservatory) c.1893 Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 56.5 x 71.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris