Tag: landscape

Madonna and Child (c.1496-1499)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Madonna and Child (obverse) c.1496–1499 Oil on panel, 52.4 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dürer was born in Nuremberg and received a typical medieval training from his goldsmith father and from the Nuremberg painter Michael…

Tigre et serpent (1862)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Tigre et serpent (Tiger and Snake) 1862 Oil on canvas, 33.02 × 41.28 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A crouching tiger to our left bares its fangs at a hissing snake wound around a tree to our…

Conversazione tra le rovine (1927)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Conversazione tra le rovine (Conversation among the Ruins) 1927 Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 97.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A man, woman, a small table, chair, and two fragments of walls float on an octagonal, straw-colored…

La ferme (1855)

Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) La ferme (The Farm) 1855 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 81.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington