Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Ophelia 1851–1852 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 111.8 cm Tate Britain, London The scene depicted is from Shakespeare‘s Hamlet, Act IV, Scene vii, in which Ophelia, driven out of her mind when her father is murdered by…
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Madonna Quaratesi (Madonna and Child with Angels) 1425 Tempera on wood, 139.9 × 83 cm National Gallery, London On loan from His Majesty The King This panel formed the centre of an altarpiece commissioned by a member…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Love’s Passing 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 71.76 x 109.86 cm De Morgan Collection This painting is an allegory for the passing of time and the life cycle. The lovers in the foreground sit listening to the piping…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Infanta Margarita Teresa con vestido rosa (Infanta Margarita Teresa in pink dress) 1654 Oil on canvas, 128 × 99.6 × 3.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Margarita was the first child of the marriage between King Philip IV and his…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La petite fille à l’arrosoir (A Girl with a Watering Can) 1876 Oil on canvas, 100 x 73 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In 1876, Renoir began to paint anecdotal depictions of women and children, subjects…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Fleurs dans un vase (Flowers in a Vase) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A loose arrangement of colorful wildflowers bursting out of a red clay jug sits near the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Une jeune fille avec des marguerites (A Young Girl with Daisies) 1889 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 54 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style,…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Fleurs dans un vase (Flowers in a Vase) 1909 Oil on canvas, 45.4 x 32.7 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo For Henri Rousseau, the theme of the still life, especially flowers, offered a pleasant diversion from more ambitious,…
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 Edouard Manet offers an intriguing study in contrasts and ambiguity in The Railway, starting with the relationship between…