Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les Enfants luttant (Children Wrestling) 1888 Oil on canvas, 93 x 73 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi Gauguin (1848–1903) discovered Japanese prints in 1887 through Vincent van Gogh. In 1888, for this Breton wrestling match, he adopted the aesthetic of…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Saint Michel défait le diable (Saint Michael Defeats the Devil) probably 1850 Oil on paper mounted to canvas, 48.3 x 59.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Delacroix made this small sketch for a much larger commission: the ceiling of…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Venus Discordia 1873 Oil on canvas, 128.2 x 209.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Born in Birmingham, but of Welsh extraction, Burne-Jones was much admired by early twentieth-century Welsh critics. A friend of William Morris and an associate…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Le combat du Giaour et Hassan (The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan) 1826 Oil on canvas, 59.6 × 73.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This colorful scene was inspired by a poem from Lord Byron’s “Oriental tales,”…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Due nudi che combattono (Two Nudes Fighting) s.d. Pen and brown ink on laid paper, 7.9 x 4.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ercole e Anteo (Hercules and Antaeus) c.1570 Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 101.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Combat du Giaour et du Pacha (Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha) 1835 Oil on canvas, 73 x 61 cm Petit Palais, Paris Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Le combat du Giaour et Hassan 1826 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La lotta tra Ercole e Nesso (The Fight of Hercules and Nessus) c.1660–1665 Oil on canvas, 137.5 x 167.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le Combat (The Fight) c.1925 Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 50 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Deux chevaux combattant dans un paysage orageux (Two Horses Fighting in a Stormy Landscape) c.1828 Oil on canvas, 36.8 x 45.9 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown