Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Femme avec un râteau (Woman with a Rake) 1856–1857 Oil on canvas, 39.7 x 34.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Millet first treated this subject in a woodcut, one of ten in the series Labors of the…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Paysage d’automne avec un troupeau de dindes (Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys) 1872–1873 Oil on canvas, 81 x 99.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Millet wrote to his patron Frédéric Hartmann on February 18, 1873…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Meules de foin, Automne (Haystacks: Autumn) c.1874 Oil on canvas, 85.1 x 110.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture is from a series depicting the four seasons commissioned in 1868 by the industrialist Frédéric Hartmann.…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix c.1864–1870 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 66 cm Tate Britain, London Dante Gabriel Rossetti identified closely with the medieval poet Dante Alighieri. Rossetti saw his own despair at the death of his wife, the artist and…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) St George and Princess Sabra 1862 Watercolour on paper, 52.4 x 30.8 cm Tate Britain, London This is one of a number of watercolours by Rossetti illustrating the legend of St George. Having killed the dragon, St…
Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear c.1856 Watercolour on paper, 13.7 x 13.7 cm Tate Britain, London Elizabeth Siddall began painting in 1852 and made over a hundred works in the following ten years. Her style and subject…
Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Sir Patrick Spens 1856 Watercolour on paper, 24.1 x 22.9 cm Tate Britain, London This picture is based on an ancient Scottish ballad. The King of Scotland asks Sir Patrick Spens, the best sailor in the land, to…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) San Diego d’Alcalá riceve l’elemosina (Saint Didacus of Alcalá receiving alms) 1604–1605 Fresco transferred to canvas, 126 x 223.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Annibale Carracci painted these works without previous cartoons as part of a group for the…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Apparizione di San Diego sopra il suo sepolcro (Apparition of Saint Didacus above his sepulchre) 1604–1606 Fresco transferred to canvas Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona Mural Paintings from the Herrera Chapel.
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Miracolo delle rose (Miracle of the Roses) 1604–1606 Fresco transferred to canvas Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona Mural Paintings from the Herrera Chapel.