Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Dormition of the Virgin c.1564 Oil on panel, 67.7 x 85.3 x 12.6 cm Upton House and Gardens, England This ‘grisaille’, or grey monochrome painting, shows the death of the Virgin, attended by the…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jardin à Sainte-Adresse (Garden at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 98.1 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet spent the summer of 1867 with his family at Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort near Le Havre. It was…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Chambre de Van Gogh à Arles (Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles) 1889 Oil on canvas, 57.3 x 73.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris (F0483-JH1793) Van Gogh produced three, almost identical paintings on the theme of his bedroom. The…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Terrasse de café sur la place du Forum (Café Terrace on the Place du Forum) 1888 Oil on canvas 80.7 x 65.3 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F 467, JH 1580) Nocturnal painting Van Gogh had intended to make…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Matteo e l’angelo (St Matthew and the Angel) 1602 destroyed in 1945 Oil on canvas, 232 x 183 cm Bode Museum, Berlin (former Kaiser Friedrich Museum)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Annunciazione (Annunciation) c.1609 Oil on canvas, 185 x 205 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Morte della Madonna (Death of the Virgin) c.1606 Oil on canvas, 369 x 245 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Cena in Emmaus (Supper at Emmaus) 1601 Oil and tempera on canvas, 141 × 196.2 cm National Gallery, London On the third day after the Crucifixion two of Jesus’s disciples were walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus. On the road they…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Réunion de famille (Family Reunion) 1867–1868 Oil on canvas 152 x 230 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Before his early death in battle during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, Frédéric Bazille was close to Renoir and Monet, particularly admiring their…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Portrait de Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1867 Oil on canvas, 61.2 x 50 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)