Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Virgen y el Niño con santa Rosa de Viterbo (The Virgin and Child with Saint Rose of Viterbo) c.1670 Oil on canvas, 190 x 147 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with The Adoration of the Magi,…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Evening 1888 Oil on canvas, 75 x 100.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Munch Museum / Munch-Ellingsen Group / VEGAP, Madrid From very early on in his career Edvard Munch aimed to convey the angst and isolation characteristic of…
Guercino (1591-1666) Cristo e la donna di Samaria al pozzo (Christ and the Woman of Samaria at the Well) c.1640–1641 Oil on canvas, 116 x 156 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The meeting between Christ and the woman of Samaria at the…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) El tío Paquete c.1819–1820 Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The subject of this canvas can be identified from the inscription that was previously on the reverse and which read “El célebre ciego…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Retrato de Fernando VII (Portrait of Ferdinand VII) c.1814–1815 Oil on canvas, 84 x 63.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This portrait of Ferdinand VII entered the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1935 and appeared in its catalogues from 1937.…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Retrato de Asensio Julià (Portrait of Asensio Julià) c.1798 Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 41 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The inscription in the bottom left corner of the painting reads: Goya to his friend Asensi. This dedication and…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Asensio Julià (Portrait of Asensio Julià, painter and disciple of Goya) 1814 Oil on canvas, 73 x 57.8 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Julià, Asensio (1753-1832)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Sarah Buxton c.1776–1777 Oil on canvas, 110 x 87 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with Joshua Reynolds Thomas Gainsborough was one of the great 18th-century British portraitists. A certain rivalry existed between the two painters, which…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Portrait d’une jeune dame (Portrait of a Young Lady) c.1770–1772 Oil on canvas, 63 x 53 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection It has always been felt that the age of Louis XV finds its most characteristic…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Portrait of a Man 1640 Oil on panel, 67.1 x 55.1 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Son of a cloth merchant, Govert Flinck began his training in the studio of the painter and preacher Lambert Jacobsz. in Leeuwarden, where…