Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) The Stone Bridge c.1660–1672 Oil on panel, 37 x 44.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam This work depicts an imaginary canal. While it is clearly inspired by Amsterdam models, Jan van der Heyden gave it his own twist.…
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) A Farm among Trees c.1670 Oil on oak, 22.1 x 28.8 cm National Gallery, London There is something rather mysterious about this rare – and tiny – landscape by Jan van der Heyden, who specialised in painting…
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam probably 1660 Oil on oak, 90.7 x 114.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of the ultimate seventeenth-century examples of what today we might think of as a high-resolution image.…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le Soir, Paysage avec aqueduc (Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct) 1818 Oil on canvas, 250.2 x 219.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work is one of a projected set of four monumental landscapes representing the times…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Jérusalem (Jerusalem) 1867 Oil on canvas, 82 x 144.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Jerusalem (Israel)
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Étude des palmiers (Study of Palm Trees) 1855–1856 Oil on canvas, laid down on board, 26.7 × 32.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gérôme painted this study during his first trip to Egypt in 1855–56. The same…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Vue de Médinet el-Fayoum (View of Medinet El-Fayoum) c.1868–1870 Oil on wood, 38 x 56 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was the most publicly honored and financially successful French artist of the second half of…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le petit pont, Pontoise (The Little Bridge, Pontoise) 1875 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 81.5 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim See also: • Pontoise (France)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Une rue à Marly (A Street in Marly) 1876 Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim See also: • Marly-le-Roi (France)
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Jardin d’amour (Love garden) c.1925 Oil on panel, 36.8 x 46 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection The characters of a masked ball appear in a garden framed, like a stage, by tall trees. To…