Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Fêtes Vénitiennes (Venetian Festivals) 1718–1719 Oil on canvas, 56.3 × 46.2 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh This is a very fine example of the ‘fêtes galantes’ perfected by Watteau. He included himself as the seated musician playing a musette.…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Portrait of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland 1904 Oil on canvas, 254 x 146 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid John Singer Sargent lived in Paris until 1886. He studied with the painter Carolus Duran and made friends with a…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le Concours musical (The Musical Contest) c.1749–1752 Oil on canvas, 62 x 74 cm Wallace Collection, London
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the East) c.1668–1670 Oil on wood, 39.1 x 54.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Both an artist and an inventor (among other…
Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the South) c.1668–1670 Oil on wood, 39.1 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Both an artist and an inventor (among…
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…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Palazzina e Bastione del Cavaliere (Knight’s Building and Rampart) 1527–1530 Architecture Giardino di Boboli, Firenze
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Polittico di Valle Romita (Valle Romita Polyptych) c.1408 Tempera on panel, 157.2 x 79.6 (central panel) 117.5 x 40 cm (lower side panels) 48.9 x 37.8 cm (upper side panels) Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Perhaps dismembered as…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1517 Oil on panel, 66 x 50 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The painting is signed in the bottom left, LOTUS PICTOR 1517, dating it to the artist’s first sojourn in…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Adorazione del Bambino (The Adoration of the Child) c.1475–1480 Oil on poplar panel, 81.5 x 56.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A winged angel, a woman, and a baby are gathered on a terrace that overlooks a softly…