Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) River Landscape 1607 Oil on coppper, 20.7 x 32.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington People gather under trees next to an expansive river dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The people are tiny…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Il rapimento di Elena di Troia (The Abduction of Helen of Troy) c.1685–1690 Oil on canvas, 227 x 193.5 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ercole e Anteo (Hercules and Antaeus) c.1570 Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 101.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) La Crucifixion (The Crucifixion) 1644–1646 Oil on canvas, 148.59 x 218.44 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This Crucifixion dramatically illustrates the moment of Christ’s death when the sky went dark, graves were opened, and the bodies of the saved rose…
Post, Frans (1612-1680) Brazilian Landscape 1656 Oil on panel, 41.6 x 55.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This imagined landscape depicts enslaved Africans resting and dancing amid baskets of fruit on a hill above a broad plain of coastal swamp, surrounded by…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) San Francisco Javier (Saint Francis Xavier) c.1670 Oil on canvas, 216.7 x 162.2 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Morning after the Blitz 1940 Crayon and gouache on paper, 63.2 x 55.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) The Infant Moses (Trampling the Crown of Pharaoh) 1685 Oil on canvas, 139.4 x 140.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) La Charette (The Coal Wagon) c.1821 Pen and brown ink with watercolor on white paper, 18.7 x 29.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Woody Landscape c.1783–1784 Oil on canvas, 64 x 76.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Although most famous for his portraits, Gainsborough was also one of the originators of English landscape painting in the eighteenth century. Inspired by Dutch landscapes from…