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First Steps, after Millet (1890)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) First Steps, after Millet 1890 Oil on canvas, 72.4 x 91.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In fall and winter 1889–90, while a voluntary patient at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted twenty-one copies after…

Les Premiers pas (c.1859-1866)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Les Premiers pas (First Steps) c.1859–1866 Black chalk and pastel on wove paper, 29.5 x 45.9 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland At the time this drawing was made, many critics disparaged Millet‘s depictions of peasants as politically…

Mariana (1851)

Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Mariana 1851 Oil on mahogany, 59.7 x 49.5 cm Tate Britain, London When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, this picture was accompanied by the following lines from Tennyson‘s Mariana (1830): She only said,…

Beata Beatrix (c.1864-1870)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix c.1864–1870 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 66 cm Tate Britain, London Dante Gabriel Rossetti identified closely with the medieval poet Dante Alighieri. Rossetti saw his own despair at the death of his wife, the artist and…

Dantis Amor (1860)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Dantis Amor (Dante’s Love) 1860 Oil on mahogany, 74.9 x 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London «L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.» (Love that moves the sun and the other stars). Dante, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145. This…

St George and Princess Sabra (1862)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) St George and Princess Sabra 1862 Watercolour on paper, 52.4 x 30.8 cm Tate Britain, London This is one of a number of watercolours by Rossetti illustrating the legend of St George. Having killed the dragon, St…

Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear (c.1856)

Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear c.1856 Watercolour on paper, 13.7 x 13.7 cm Tate Britain, London Elizabeth Siddall began painting in 1852 and made over a hundred works in the following ten years. Her style and subject…