Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) L’hiver, Ramasseuses de fagots (Winter, The Faggot Gatherers) 1868–1875 Oil on canvas, 82 x 100 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
L’hiver, Ramasseuses de fagots (1868-1875)
Tag: darkness
Honoré Daumier (c.1870)
Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Honoré Daumier probably 1870–1876, but possibly 1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 76.2 × 62.9 cm National Gallery, London Portraits by Daubigny are quite rare, as he was primarily a landscape painter who was closely associated with the Barbizon group.…
Lux in Tenebris (1895)
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Lux in Tenebris 1895 Oil on canvas, 150.5 x 99.5 cm De Morgan Collection
Proserpine (1874)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine (Proserpina) 1874 Oil on canvas, 125.1 cm × 61 cm Tate Britain, London Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1878 Private collection Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Proserpine 1882 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham …
La sepoltura di Cristo (1595)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) La sepoltura di Cristo (The Burial of Christ) 1595 Oil on copper, 43.8 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This deeply moving picture was painted for one of Carracci’s patrons, Astorre di Vincenzo Sampieri, a…
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1594)
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Temptation of Saint Anthony 1594 Oil on copper, 25.2 × 35.2 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water (1872)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water 1872 Oil on canvas, 51 × 76.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 1870s James McNeill Whistler took a radical step toward abstraction with his Nocturnes series. In…
The Entombment (1635-1639)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Entombment c.1635–1639 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 68.9 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 six paintings however do…
The Deposition (1632-1633)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Deposition of Christ from the Cross 1632–1633 Oil on West Indian cedar (Cedrela odorata), 89.4 x 65.2 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince…
The Adoration of the Shepherds (1646)
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…