Tag: horse

Woody Landscape (c.1783-1784)

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Woody Landscape c.1783–1784 Oil on canvas, 64 x 76.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Although most famous for his portraits, Gainsborough was also one of the originators of English landscape painting in the eighteenth century. Inspired by Dutch landscapes from…

The Favorite Horse (c.1908)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) The Favorite Horse c.1908 Transparent and opaque watercolor over traces of graphite on wove paper, 24.76 x 34.61 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Marte e Venere uniti dall’Amore (1570s)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Marte e Venere uniti dall’Amore (Mars and Venus United by Love) 1570s Oil on canvas, 205.7 x 161 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The love between Mars, the god of war, and Venus, the goddess of…

La foire aux chevaux (1852-1855)

Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) La foire aux chevaux (The Horse Fair) 1852–1855 Oil on canvas, 244.5 x 506.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This, Bonheur’s best-known painting, shows the horse market held in Paris on the tree-lined Boulevard de l’Hôpital, near…

Don Quichotte (c.1865-1868)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Don Quichotte (Don Quixote) c.1865–1868 Oil on canvas, 189.9 x 138.1 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati See also: • Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1516)

Femme assise au Bois de Boulogne (1893-1894)

Manet, Julie (1878-1966) Femme assise au Bois de Boulogne (Seated woman in the Bois de Boulogne) 1893–1894 Watercolor on paper, 23 x 36 cm British Museum, London The watercolour was done by Julie Manet as a teenager at the same time…