Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) L’Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 1650 Oil on canvas, 239 x 181 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Sent directly from Naples in 1802, this painting was the first work by Ribera to enter the…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Natività (The Nativity) 1523 Oil on panel, 46 x 35.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman and an older man kneel to either side of a nude baby outside of a barn-like structure in this vertical…
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Baby (Cradle) 1917–1918 Oil on canvas, 110.9 x 110.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A baby nestles in a mass of frilly white fabric atop a colorful patchwork, perhaps a pile of quilts, against a sage and…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jean Monet endormi (Jean Monet Sleeping) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 50 cm Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen See also: • Monet, Jean (1867-1914)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jean Monet dans son berceau (The Cradle – Camille with the Artist’s Son Jean) 1867 Oil on canvas, 116.2 x 88.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto a baby tucked into an…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Holy Family c.1633–1635 Oil on canvas, 183.5 x 123 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Rembrandt presents this touching gathering of the Holy Family in the carpenter’s workshop in a monumental genre painting with almost life-sized figures that has…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Adoration of the Shepherds 1646 Oil on canvas, 97 x 71.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Holy Family with St Anne 1640 Oil on panel, 41 x 34 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The Christian meaning of the painting has often been obliterated in favor of a purely secular interpretation: for example at…