Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baigneuse assise (Young Girl Bathing) 1892 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Pierre Auguste Renoir painted a great many canvases of single bathers in outdoor settings, timeless studies of fulsome…
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…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Frederick Rihel on Horseback c.1663 Oil on canvas, 294.5 x 241 cm National Gallery, London This life-size portrait of a man on a rearing horse is an extremely unusual painting. It is one of the largest…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Landscape with a Castle c.1640–1642 Oil on panel, 44 x 60 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painting visibly left in a certain state of incompleteness (the sky by contrast was painted first and is colored and finished): Rembrandt…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Archangel Raphael Leaving Tobias’ Family 1637 Oil on panel, 66 x 52 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Tobit, Tobit’s old father, having regained his sight through the medication of the archangel Raphael, gives thanks to God with…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Landscape with a Stone Bridge c.1638 Oil on panel, 29.5 x 42.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt painted only a few landscapes, mostly imaginary vistas with mountains in the background. While he might very well have seen the different…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Abraham receiving the three angels of the Lord c.1680–1685 Oil on canvas, 120 x 164 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Episode taken from the Bible (Genesis, XVIII, 6-15). In the background, Sarah, Abraham’s old wife, who will…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Maternal Love (Caritas) c.1685 Oil on canvas, 57 x 48.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (Venus schenkt wapens aan Aeneas) 1668 Oil on canvas, 161.8 x 165.8 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp In the 17th century, classicism broke through, also in golden Holland. Artists…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Celia Thaxter’s Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine 1890 Oil on canvas, 45.1 x 54.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting is one of the finest of a series of works that Hassam made during summers…