Tag: landscape

Meules de foin, Automne (c.1874)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Meules de foin, Automne (Haystacks: Autumn) c.1874 Oil on canvas, 85.1 x 110.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture is from a series depicting the four seasons commissioned in 1868 by the industrialist Frédéric Hartmann.…

Il ristoro miracoloso (1604-1605)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Il ristoro miracoloso (The miraculous refreshment) 1604–1605 Fresco transferred to canvas, 126 x 230.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The paintings in the chapel paid for by the Spanish banker Juan Enríquez de Herrera in the church of Santiago…

Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (c.1596-1597)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (Christ and the Samaritan Woman) c.1596–1597 Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 63.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Compare: Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo 1594–1595 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano    

Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (1594-1595)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (Christ and the Samaritan Woman) 1594–1595 Oil on canvas, 170 × 225 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Compare: Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo c.1596–1597 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest    

Paesaggio con la Fuga in Egitto (c.1604)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Paesaggio con la Fuga in Egitto (Landscape with the Flight into Egypt) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 122 x 230 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma It is the leading element of the so-called “Aldobrandini Lunettes”, thanks to which the…

Domine, quo vadis? (1601-1602)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Domine, quo vadis? (Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way) 1601–1602 Oil on wood, 77.4 x 56.3 cm National Gallery, London Saint Peter fled Rome after Christ’s crucifixion, scared that he too would be executed by…

Sileno che raccoglie l’uva (1597-1600)

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Sileno che raccoglie l’uva (Silenus gathering Grapes) 1597–1600 Oil and egg on wood, 54.5 x 88.5 cm National Gallery, London Using an animal skin, two laughing satyrs with pointed ears and short tails – although without the usual hairy…