Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Faust et Méphistophélès (Faust and Mephistopheles) 1827–1828 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 37.7 cm Wallace Collection, London See also: • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
Faust et Méphistophélès (1827-1828)
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Les Hasards heureux de l’escarpolette (c.1767-1768)
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les hasards heureux de l’escarpolette (The Happy Chances of the Swing) c.1767–1768 Oil on canvas, 81 x 64.2 cm Wallace Collection, London Fragonard’s iconic painting is one of the most emblematic images of 18th-century French art. A young…
Portrait of a Man (early 1650s)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Man early 1650s Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 86.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this canvas of the early 1650s, the figure’s pose follows a pattern Hals employed twenty years earlier, but here…
Young Man and Woman in an Inn (1623)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Young Man and Woman in an Inn 1623 Oil on canvas, 105.4 x 79.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted with the characteristically bold brushwork that Hals had learned from Flemish painting, this picture provides a…
The Laughing Cavalier (1624)
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) The Laughing Cavalier 1624 Oil on canvas, 83 x 67.3 cm Wallace Collection, London A highly gifted portraitist, Frans Hals had a supreme ability to characterise his sitters and make them appear lifelike. This exuberant portrait of a…
La cena di Emmaus (c.1542)
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) La cena di Emmaus (The Supper at Emmaus) c.1542 Oil on canvas, 156 x 212 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest According to the Gospel of Saint Luke, two of Christ’s disciples, while on their way to Emmaus, met…
San Giacomo il Maggiore con un pellegrino vivo e uno morto (c.1508)
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) San Giacomo il Maggiore con un pellegrino vivo e uno morto (Saint James the Greater with a Living and a Dead Pilgrim) c.1508 Oil on wood, 34 × 26.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The tomb of…
Christ Carrying the Cross (1480s)
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Workshop Christ Carrying the Cross (Calvary Triptych, left shutter) 1480s Oil on oak, 58 × 27.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Calvary Triptych (1480s) Central panel: Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Calvary 1480s Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Exterior:…
San Girolamo nel deserto (c.1475-1480)
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) San Girolamo nel deserto (Saint Jerome in the Wilderness) c.1475–1480 Tempera on wood, 46.5 × 34.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Flagellazione di Cristo (c.1641-1644)
Guercino (1591-1666) Flagellazione di Cristo (The Flagellation of Christ) c.1641–1644 Oil on canvas, 351 x 176.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Giovanni Francesco Barbieri eked out his first fifty years in his native town, day after day waiting for the death…