Tag: landscape

La Maison natale de Millet à Gruchy (c.1863)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La Maison natale de Millet à Gruchy (Millet’s Birthplace at Gruchy) c.1863 Pastel over crayon on paper, 31.2 x 45.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston See also: • Gruchy, Gréville-Hague (France)

Femme avec un râteau (1856-1857)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Femme avec un râteau (Woman with a Rake) 1856–1857 Oil on canvas, 39.7 x 34.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Millet first treated this subject in a woodcut, one of ten in the series Labors of the…

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.…

Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear (c.1856)

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…

Sir Patrick Spens (1856)

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…

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    …