Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Glaucus and Nydia 1867 Oil on wood panel, 55.5 x 81 x 4.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Alma-Tadema, one of the most popular Victorian painters, became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Printemps (Spring) 1881 Oil on canvas, 74 x 51.5 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles See also: • Demarsy, Jeanne (1865-1937) | Proust, Antonin (1832-1905)
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Jephthah 1867 Oil on canvas, 127 x 162.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Ragazza della famiglia Gradenigo con una colomba (A young girl of the Gradenigo family with a dove) c.1768–1770 Oil on canvas, 149.5 x 98.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Le Christ sur la croix (Christ on the Cross) 1853 Oil on canvas, 73.5 × 59.7 cm National Gallery, London Delacroix depicts a moment described in Gospel of John, when Christ addresses his mother, the Virgin Mary, and one…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) The Nymph of the Spring after 1537 Oil on panel, 48.4 x 72.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington The nymph reclines beside a spring, perhaps a reference to a legendary ancient Roman fountain with which a…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) The Infant Moses (Trampling the Crown of Pharaoh) 1685 Oil on canvas, 139.4 x 140.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Helen of Troy 1898 Oil on canvas, 124 x 73.8 cm De Morgan Collection
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) An Egyptian in a Doorway 1865 Oil on wood, 55.9 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In the mid-1860s, Alma-Tadema painted a number of subjects set in ancient Egypt, in which convincing archaeological precision and uncanny…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Comparison 1892 Oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati