Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Die Drahtziehmühle (The Wire-drawing Mill) c.1489 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 29 x 42.6 cm Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin The depiction of the landscape environment, which is self-evident and particularly interesting to us, was not common for centuries, from the…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Le tre età dell’uomo (The Three Ages of Man) 1512–1514 Oil on canvas, 90 x 150.7 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh This early work depicts the three stages of life: infancy, adulthood and old age. Cupid clambers over the sleeping…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Amor sacro e amor profano (Sacred and Profane Love) 1515–1516 Oil on canvas, 118 x 278 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This work was probably sold to Scipione Borghese in 1608 by Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati. A veritable interpretative enigma, critics…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) La Bacchante à la Panthère (Bacchante with a Panther) 1860 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 95.3 cm Shelburne Museum, Shelburne
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Vue depuis les jardins Farnèse (View from the Farnese Gardens, Rome) 1826 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 24.4475 x 40.005 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington After working several years in France, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot embarked for Italy in…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) El columpio (The Swing) 1779 Oil on canvas, 260 x 165 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This cartoon, the pair to The Washerwomen (P-786), depicts three women and four elegantly dressed children with their dog on a…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Las floreras, o La Primavera (The Flower Girls, or Spring) 1786 Oil on canvas, 277 x 192 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A young woman holding a girl by the hand receives a rose from another who kneels…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La Gare de Lordship Lane, Dulwich (Lordship Lane Station) 1871 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 72.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Pissarro spent over a year in London, fleeing the Franco-Prussian war. He painted sights around his…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Les côteaux de l’Hermitage, Pontoise (The Hermitage at Pontoise) c.1867 Oil on canvas, 150.3 x 200 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York The view represented here is a winding village path at the base of a cluster of houses…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Vue de l’Hermitage, Côte de Jalais, Pontoise (View of l’Hermitage, Jalais Hills, Pontoise) c.1867 Oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm Private collection See also: • Hermitage (Pontoise)