Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Madonna at the Fountain 1439 Oil on panel, 19 x 12 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp Inscriptions: frame, lower: A XAN/ IOHES DE EYCK ME FECIT + PLEVIT ANO 1439° The Virgin Mary lovingly cradles the…
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Lucca Madonna c.1437 Oil on panel, 65.5 × 149.5 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt No other work by Jan van Eyck conveys a sense of such immediate intimacy between the viewer and the figures depicted as this painting.…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Bohémienne endormie (The Sleeping Gypsy) 1897 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 200.7 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Guerre (War, or Discord on Horseback) c.1894 Oil on canvas, 114.5 x 195 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris More than twenty years after the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870 and the Commune in 1871 when the Douanier Rousseau painted War,…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La charmeuse de serpents (The Snake Charmer) 1907 Oil on canvas, 167 x 189.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Rousseau, who was self-taught and began painting late in life, travelled very little. Most of his jungles were painted in the…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Liberté invitant les artistes à participer à la 22e exposition des Indépendants (Liberty Inviting Artists to Take Part in the 22nd Exhibition of the Societe des Artistes Independants) 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 175 x 118 cm…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Allegory of Faith (Allegorie op het geloof) 1670–1672 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture, made at a moment when public celebrations of the Mass were forbidden in the Dutch…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Diana and her nymphs (Diana en haar Nimfen) c.1653–1654 Oil on canvas, 97.8 x 104.6 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague Signed lower left, on the rock, between the dog and the thistle: JVMeer VM in ligature Vermeer is best…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Christus in het huis van Martha en Maria) 1654–1656 Oil on canvas, 158.5 x 141.5 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Garçon au chat (Young Boy with a Cat) 1868 Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 66 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris The Boy with the Cat has not given up all its secrets. This male nude has no equivalent in…