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.…
Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear c.1856 Watercolour on paper, 13.7 x 13.7 cm Tate Britain, London Elizabeth Siddall began painting in 1852 and made over a hundred works in the following ten years. Her style and subject…
Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Sir Patrick Spens 1856 Watercolour on paper, 24.1 x 22.9 cm Tate Britain, London This picture is based on an ancient Scottish ballad. The King of Scotland asks Sir Patrick Spens, the best sailor in the land, to…
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…
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 …
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 Francesco Sampieri, a resident of Bologna who had fallen on hard times, sold the family picture…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) c.1604 Oil on canvas, diameter 82.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
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…
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…
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…