Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Paysannes aux broussailles (Peasant Women with Brushwood) c.1852 Oil on canvas, 37.5 x 29.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Millet devoted his talent to the depiction of scenes from peasant life, and this is a typical example of his…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Cristo conduce gli Apostoli sul monte Tabor (Christ Leading the Apostles to Mount Tabor) 1511–1512 Oil on canvas, 26.5 x 57.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di famiglia (Family Portrait) 1523–1524 Oil on canvas, 96 x 116 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto con Santa Giustina (Rest on the Flight into Egypt with St Justine) 1529–1530 Oil on canvas, 82 x 132.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The story of Saint Justine is full of puzzles…
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Bacchante 1911 Oil on canvas pasted on cardboard, 32.7 x 41 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Veduta dell’Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore (View of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore) 1765–1775 Oil on canvas, 43 x 61 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Master of the townscape -known as vedute in Italian- Guardi painted many…
Gros, Antoine-Jean (1771-1835) Bonaparte au pont d’Arcole (Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole) late 1796-early 1797 Oil on canvas, 134 x 104 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This painting, combining a battle scene with a formal portrait, was based on the artist’s personal…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Bathsheba with King David’s Letter 1659 Oil on canvas, 115 x 87 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Sapho, Phaon et l’Amour (Sappho, Phaon and Cupid) 1809 Oil on canvas, 225.3 x 262 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg David is considered the founder and leading light of Neoclassicism, which dominated art in the late 18th and…
Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Bord de rivière (River Bank) 1866 Oil on panel, 26.5 x 46 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Daubigny was perhaps one of the most important artists of the Barbizon School, which took its name from the village of…