Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Boulevard des Italiens c.1880 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Private collection See also: • Boulevard des Italiens | Paris | Streets | Streets (Paris)
Boulevard des Italiens (c.1880)
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Étude pour Rue de Paris, temps de pluie (1877)
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Étude pour Rue de Paris, temps de pluie (Study for Paris Street, Rainy Day) 1877 Graphite, with touches of erasing and charcoal, on tan laid paper 30.2 x 46.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This preparatory drawing…
Rue de Paris, temps de pluie (1877)
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Rue de Paris, temps de pluie (Paris Street, Rainy Day) 1877 Oil on canvas, 212.2 x 276.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This complex intersection, just minutes away from the Saint-Lazare train station, represents in microcosm the changing…
Les représentants des puissances étrangères venant saluer la République en signe de paix (1907)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Les représentants des puissances étrangères venant saluer la République en signe de paix (The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Greet the Republic as a Sign of Peace) 1907 Oil on canvas, 130 x 161 cm Musée Picasso, Paris
Morte della Vergine (c.1462)
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Morte della Vergine (Death of the Virgin) c.1462 Oil on wood, 54.5 x 42 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Virgin Mary lies on her deathbed, surrounded by eleven Apostles. Through the window, the Borgo di San Giorgio and…
Madonna del Prato (c.1500-1505)
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna del Prato (Madonna of the Meadow) c.1500–1505 Oil on synthetic panel, transferred from wood, 66.5 × 85.1 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary adores the Christ Child sleeping on her lap. Giovanni Bellini was one of…
Le Chemin de fer (1873)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Chemin de fer (The Railway, Gare Saint-Lazare) 1873 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 111.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington The Gare Saint-Lazare, in 1873 the largest and busiest train station in Paris, is unseen in this painting.…
Children’s Games (1560)
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Children’s Games 1560 Oil on oak panel, 118 x 161 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Netherlandish Proverbs 1559 Oil on oak panel, 117.2 x 163.8 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Reference lower right: BRVEGEL • 1559 The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as…
Dido building Carthage (1815)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…