Tag: landscape

The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin (1434-1435)

Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin c.1434–1435 Oil on panel, 66 x 62 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted for Nicolas Rolin (around 1376/80-1462), chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy Philippe the Good, to adorn the personal chapel (Saint-Sébastien…

Éclaireurs attaqués par un tigre (1904)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Éclaireurs attaqués par un tigre (Scouts Attacked by a Tiger) 1904 Oil on canvas, 121.6 x 161.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Self-taught artist Henri Rousseau created his enormous jungle scenes by studying the plants and taxidermy animals in Paris‘s…