Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian) 4th quarter of the 15th century Tempera on canvas, 255 x 140 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Composition surrounded by a trompe-l’oeil porphyry border. Probably arrived in Aigueperse (Auvergne) on the occasion of the marriage…
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…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Un porticato: paesaggio veneziano (An Arcade: Venetian Landscape) 18th century Oil on canvas, 40 x 31 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Artwork recovered after World War II, retrieved by the Office des Biens et Intérêts Privés (OBIP); to…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le four à plâtre (The plaster oven) 1822–1823 Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) 2nd quarter of the 17th century Oil on canvas, 157 x 225 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto c.1620…
Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Bateaux sur l’Oise (Boats on the Oise) 1865 Oil on wood, 38.5 x 66.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Sacra Conversazione (Holy Conversation) c.1500 Oil on poplar, 98 x 127 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Inscription: A. VICTORE CARPATHIO FICTI
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Air 1621 Oil on copper, 45 x 65 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Birds like the armillary sphere of the muse Urania, the telescope of the putto which observes the chariots of Apollo (sun) and Diana…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) Madonna col Bambino e San Giovanni Battista (Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist) c.1470 Oil on wood, 70 x 53 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Paysannes bretonnes dans un champ (Breton peasant women in a field) 1889 Watercolor and charcoal on paper, 21.8 x 15.6 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Bretagne (France)