Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1480–1490 Tempera on poplar, 88.9 × 57.8 cm National Gallery, London The Christ Child looks up at the Virgin Mary, raising the index finger of his right hand as though he…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Cheval effrayé par la foudre (A Horse frightened by Lightning) c.1813–1814 Oil on canvas, 48.9 × 60.3 cm National Gallery, London Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault was a keen horseman, and his passion for horses was matched by his expert understanding…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter c.1748 Oil on canvas, 92.1 × 70.5 cm National Gallery, London This is the earliest known self portrait in oil by Gainsborough, and the only known one of him with…
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo expulsando a los mercaderes del templo (Christ driving the Traders from the Temple) c.1600 Oil on canvas, 106.3 × 129.7 cm National Gallery, London El Greco has used theatrical gestures and intense colours to express the chaos and…
El Greco (1541-1614) Adoración del Nombre de Jesús (The Adoration of the Name of Jesus) late 1570s Oil and egg tempera on pine, 55.1 × 33.8 cm National Gallery, London This picture is closely related to a larger work of the…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Ovide chez les Scythes (Ovid among the Scythians) 1862 Oil on paper, laid down on wood, 32.1 x 50.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is the final work Delacroix devoted to a theme that had first…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Ovide chez les Scythes (Ovid among the Scythians) 1859 Oil on canvas, 87.6 × 130.2 cm National Gallery, London In AD 8 the Roman poet Ovid, author of The Art Of Love and the epic poem Metamorphoses, was banished…
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…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Don Quichotte et Sancho Panza (Don Quixote and Sancho Panza) c.1855 Oil on oak, 40.3 × 64.1 cm National Gallery, London Don Quixote, the hero of Miguel de Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote, preoccupied Daumier throughout his career, particularly in…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La diligence dans la neige (The Diligence in the Snow) 1860 Oil on canvas, 137.2 × 199.1 cm National Gallery, London The high viewpoint in this painting opens up the prospect of the vast distance, heightening its very…