Tag: horse

Adoration of the Magi (1598-1600)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Adoration of the Magi 1598–1600 Oil on copperplate, 26.5 x 35.2 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Compare: Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Adoration of the Kings 1598 National Gallery, London    

Les Jockeys (1882)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Les Jockeys (The Jockeys) 1882 Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 45 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection «In our family,» Toulouse-Lautrec quipped, «once baptised, one is in the saddle.» Lautrec‘s father was a fanatical -and somewhat…

L’Inondation à Port-Marly (1876)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) L’Inondation à Port-Marly (The Flood at Port-Marly) 1876 Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection Based in Marly-le-Roi from 1874 to 1877, Sisley executed a group of seven paintings on the flooding…

Course de chevaux (c.1817)

Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Course de chevaux (Horse Race) c.1817 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 44 x 59 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Théodore Géricault was from a wealthy Rouen family that moved to Paris in 1796 for professional reasons. Géricault was…

The Garden of Eden (c.1610-1612)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Garden of Eden c.1610–1612 Oil on panel, 59.4 x 95.6 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen Brueghel was born into a famous dynasty of artists and, together with Rubens, he was generally regarded as…

La crocifissione (1456-1459)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) 1456–1459 Tempera on poplar, 76 x 96 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Central panel of the predella of the triptych commissioned by the apostolic prothonotary Gregorio Correr for the high altar of the church…

Parnaso (4th quarter of the 15th century)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Parnaso (Parnassus) 4th quarter of the 15th century Tempera on canvas, 159 x 192 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Commissioned during the winter of 1496–1497 by Isabelle d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539) for the decoration of her first studiolo…