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Paesaggio con fiume e bagnanti (s.d.)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Paesaggio con fiume e bagnanti (Landscape with river and bathers) s.d. Oil on canvas, 47 × 56 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Attributed to Annibale Carracci.
Vista di Vienna dal Belvedere (1758-1761)
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Vista di Vienna dal Belvedere (Vienna Viewed from the Belvedere Palace) 1758–1761 Oil on canvas, 135 × 213 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This view of Vienna from the Upper Belvedere Palace, the summer palace of Prince Eugene of…
Landscape in Suffolk (c.1748)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Landscape in Suffolk c.1748 Oil on canvas, 65 × 95 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna In terms of motif and composition, the landscapes that the young Gainsborough painted in his native Suffolk are indebted to the Dutch landscape art…
Madonna del Prato (1505-1506)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Prato (Madonna of the meadow) 1505–1506 Oil on poplar, 113 × 88.3 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription on the hem of Mary’s dress with the year M.d.V. (perhaps also M.D.V.I. to be read) The group,…
The Virgin and Child with a Monkey (c.1498)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) The Virgin and Child with a Monkey c.1498 Engraving, 19.05 x 12.07 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Albrecht Dürer’s prints are characterized by nearly ethereal transitions from dark to light. From the fineness of the monkey’s wiry fur…
La fumée (1912)
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) La fumée (Smoke) 1912 Oil on canvas, 92.07 x 73.02 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Smoke is one of several of Fernand Léger‘s studies combining puffs of smoke with a group of buildings. Although this painting is…
La Vie paysanne (1925)
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life) 1925 Oil on canvas, 100.01 x 80.01 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Marc Chagall was born into a Hasidic Jewish family in an area of the Russian Empire that is now Belarus.…
Rue de village à Marlotte (1866)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Rue de village à Marlotte (Village Street in Marlotte) 1866 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 91.44 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Although Alfred Sisley is considered one of the key figures of Impressionism, he remained somewhat of…
Cupid as Link Boy (1774)
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…